Author: David Dory
Date: 05:57:47 02/18/02
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On February 18, 2002 at 06:35:53, Uri Blass wrote:
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>I do not think that all of the programmers of today are stupid.
>I guess that they found better ideas.
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>Uri
>
Better ideas? That's a relative thing, and we have no way to really compare
their ideas (on DB's hardware and software), with ideas used in Rebel, Fritz,
CM, ChessTiger, etc., on a PC, except in a very artificial and abstract way.
I believe in each case, the programmers found ideas that were APPROPRIATE for
their system. After all, the GREAT idea's of today, would have been disastrous
to implement on a Fidelity Chess Challenger running with a Zilog Z80 CPU at a
BLINDING 4Mhz.
The reasons DB would still be kicking ass today, were it still around and being
updated, are:
1) Hsu and his team had a history of creating a fantastic chess computer, DT.
For all intents and purposes, they really had a doctorate in chess computer
science!
2) They used the considerable resources IBM gave them, not just for software
improvements, but to build a bunch of custom high speed micro-chips and
integrate them into the fastest chess computer of all time. (so far :-))
3) After a long time working out the bugs, they brought in GM Joel Benjamin
to fine tune the openings, etc.
How many other developer's do this, to this extent, Uri?
It isn't just that Hsu & team were brilliant, or had a TON of resources, or had
such sensational experience building a custom chess computer. It was all these
things together, and I believe the whole was equal to more than the sum of the
parts, which were considerable, in this case.
If you had several million to invest in a new fantastic chess playing computer,
wouldn't you do what the DB team did?
Dave
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