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

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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