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Subject: Re: What Happened to the Hyatt -Schroder Nodes per Second Challege?

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 01:02:55 02/07/02

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On February 06, 2002 at 19:48:20, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>As I recall visiting the Rebel Website some time ago that there was a bet
>between Hyatt and Ed Schroder on the effect of speed on chess Programs .And
>that a 100 to 1 Match was arranged between Crafty and Rebel With Crafty given
>100 times more time then Rebel.One game posted on the site from the match have
>Rebel winning under such Handicapp.My qestion is was any Scientific results
>obtained from this(uncompleted) Match.The Match came as a result of a debate
>Between Hyatt and Ed about the Supposed Elo difference between the best PC
>programs (of that time)and IBM's DeepBlue.

The match was a result of a (giant) discussion in RGCC about chess knowledge vs
speed. It should prove that chess knowledge has the possibility to outperform a
massive hardware advantage such as Deep Blue. Since the discussion led to
nowhere because of 100% opposite opinions I challenged Bob to proof my point,
hence the 100 x time advantage for Crafty.

I think the point was valid in those days (1997 or so) as the one game Crafty
and Rebel played was won by Rebel but I think that nowadays Crafty is much too
sophisticated to repeat the challenge.

Anyway it was a fun thing to do and I am still waiting for Bob's revenge in
whatever form :)

To read all about it check: http://www.rebel.nl/other.htm

Ed



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