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Subject: Re: Sometimes computers still aren't better than 2400's

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 13:54:34 01/16/02

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On January 16, 2002 at 16:39:31, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On January 16, 2002 at 16:14:10, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 16, 2002 at 15:53:00, Joshua Lee wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>What i would like to know is when are programs going to not need an opening
>>>book. The book didn't help chess tiger this game nor did having a huge speed
>>>advantage i think for Black to realize he has made a mistake and will lose
>>>requires a computer that runs over 5 ghz or faster??
>>
>>That's about 2 years from now (5GHz).
>
>
>My guess is we'll see the first 5 GHz machines within 1.4 years.

I thought that computing power approximately doubled every 18 months, which
would put us at about 4.4 GHz in 1.5 years, which is less than 5GHz in 1.4
years.

Are the rates that computing speeds are increasing increasing?



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