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Subject: Re: Computer chess tournaments and hardware

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 07:40:18 07/03/02

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On July 03, 2002 at 08:58:38, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>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.

Hehe thanks, you are most kind, I needed that :)
I still don't understand why my prog gets beaten by Crafty every single time, it
_must be_ a bug in the hardware....

-S.



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