Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 05:58:38 07/03/02
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On July 03, 2002 at 01:01:39, Russell Reagan wrote: >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 All you programmers are prejudiced! You want to think that the software is important. Self delusion! It's really the hardware that matters. Bob D.
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