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Subject: Re: Computer chess tournaments and hardware

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 22:01:39 07/02/02

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On July 03, 2002 at 00:42:14, Keith Evans wrote:

>When has "a simple alpha-beta program with piece-square table evaluation running
>on a giant super computer" ever dominated the field?

Never that I'm aware of, but it's only a matter of throwing more processing
power at the problem until it could realistically happen. It wasn't meant to be
taken absolutely literaly though. It was meant more to make a point that when
you have a super computer running a less complex engine vs. a computer that is
many magnitudes slower running an advanced engine, the super computer should
dominate. I imagine that Diep is probably more advanced than Deep Blue since
Deep Blue didn't use forward pruning. Now Diep has comparable hardware, and so
it should be interesting to see what happens. Logic would say that Diep should
pretty much win out with a draw here or there, but only time will tell. Maybe I
am way overestimating the advantage of extra hardware. Maybe Deep Blue wasn't
all it was cracked up to be.

Russell



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