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Subject: Re: Computer chess tournaments and hardware

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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