Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:27:25 01/16/02
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On January 16, 2002 at 06:38:05, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 15, 2002 at 23:40:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 15, 2002 at 21:46:45, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>It feels good to read the history of computer chess. >>> >>>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/comphis.htm >> >> >>This isn't nearly as amazing as the fact that they could do 13 years ago >>what the very fastest machines of today can do _now_. >> >>:) > >I do not find it amazing but the fastest machines of today can play better >thanks to better software and better hardware. Nobody has said "better software". _purely_ better hardware was the topic. Raw speed. Today's PCs are roughly as fast as deep thought was in 1989. That was all that was said... > >Nodes per second are not everything. >The hardware of 1989 could not detect repetition in the last plies when the >hardware of today has no problem. So? DB1997 could also do this... > >It is also clear that there was a big progress in the software from 1989. > >Uri "some progress"...
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