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Subject: Re: Simply Amazing today's P.C. calculates faster than 1989 Deep Thought !

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:26:08 01/16/02

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On January 16, 2002 at 06:59:34, Hristo wrote:

>Does all of this mean that in about 10 years we would be able to purchase
>of-the-shelf computers that can perform as well, even out-perform, Deep Blue
>(200M nodes a sec.)?
>if it happens ...

That was my estimate in 1997.  The PC programs were 10 years or so behind
DB2 in terms of hardware speed...


>This would spell the end of chess as an art. Kill the mistery of it. The main
>reason for chess tournaments would be to see who sucks-less. :-) There will be
>no reason to search for a great chess player (human).
>
>hristo



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