Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:53:17 01/16/02
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On January 16, 2002 at 09:27:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... The comparison is between the hardware of DT1989 and the hardware of today and DB1997 is not relevant. If the hardware of today can detect repetitions in the last plies when Deep thought could not do it then it is relevant for the comparison. > > >> >>It is also clear that there was a big progress in the software from 1989. >> >>Uri > >"some progress"... I guess that there was more than 100 elo improvement in comp-comp games because of better software and I consider more than 100 elo as big improvement. Uri
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