Author: Mike S.
Date: 13:14:11 02/28/02
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On February 28, 2002 at 15:47:23, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 28, 2002 at 12:57:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 28, 2002 at 05:23:47, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>>(...) >>>Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: it is a world achivement >>>Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: he made the entire chip himself >>>Diepeveen(FM) kibitzes: which is an incredible achievement >>That last I don't understand. Ken Thompson did Belle by himself. Hsu put >>Belle on a chip and improved it, by himself. Doing it a _third_ time is an >>"incredible achievement"??? >Most of the programmers of chess programs have no idea how to do it so they can >see it as an incredible achievement. If this leads to an affordable chess hardware PC expansion card (similar to the chess machine), providing an noticable depth increase - with "good" evaluation too of course - compared to 2 GHz PCs, than I think it would be an incredible achievement. It might even be able to afford a slightly simpler evaluation (simpler, I don't mean lesser effective for pruning of course), if it can calculate 2 or 3 plies deeper at the same time. But it's certainly too early for speculations; I just hope there will be firsthand information available after Paderborn. Probably depending on the success. So far, it seemed to be a big secret. (I know the chess machine was "just" a risc CPU, so nothing special technically from the viewpoint of programmers - but provided an remarkable increase in performance for the users, compared to what the PC cpus could achieve in it's time.) Regards, M.Scheidl
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