Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 03:35:40 06/25/98
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On June 25, 1998 at 04:54:02, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: > >Here's another question about Hsu's chess chip. I seem to recall reading some >time ago that Hsu was considering a commercial release of his chip. Does anyone >know anything more about this? If the chip were to become available, how could I >use it in conjunction with a PC? would the fixed depth not be "out of sync" for >the speed of, eg a Pentium 333Mhz if it was designed to work with a >supercomputer, or can the fixed depth be adjusted to redo the balancing act in >the new environment? If it were possible, I would be very interested in >experimenting with this sort of hardware coupling. I assume that it would extend >the depth to which a program could search by something like 4 extra plies within >the same time. This would surely improve the strength of the PC ches programs >quite a lot! > >Roberto You see it wrong. If you do 4 ply searches without hash etc, then 2.5 million drops quickly to say 300k nodes a second. So in fact you're playing against a kind of fritz5, which DOES search all leafs fullwidth, which gives you some extra tactics, so commercial against programs which are only tested at the same hardware and are only busy with outbooking and trying to finish the game by means of tactics, you beat with big numbers then, but it will play horrible. Vincent
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