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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