Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:41:12 08/18/02
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On August 18, 2002 at 21:55:06, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 18, 2002 at 21:21:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On August 18, 2002 at 16:17:34, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On August 18, 2002 at 11:08:37, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>>>On August 18, 2002 at 09:06:02, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>>> >>>>No for many reasons >>>> a) deep blue is old and how many old programs are still considered >>>> 'good'? >>>> >>>>Even programs that reigned the world for 10 years (genius) completely >>>>get butchered with x-0 scores nowadays. >>> >>>Genius is not losing x-0 unless x is very small. >>>It is clearly weaker than the top programs of today but not so weak. >>> >>>Uri >> >>against movei perhaps. Against DIEP it's 100% simply. 20Mhz preprocessor >>dedicated genius getting 7 ply with 1000 move book >>against 1 million move diep book getting 10-14 ply. > >I thought about genius on the hardware of today otherwise it is not fair to say >"Even programs that reigned the world for 10 years (genius) completely >get butchered with x-0 scores nowadays." > > >It is software+hardware and not only the software. > >I agree that software+hardware of 10 years ago are losing x-0 against >software+hardware of today. > >Uri I don't even agree with that. I played Crafty vs Cray Blitz, using 1992 hardware (a C90) and Cray Blitz won 7-3. That certainly is _one_ example where Vincent's statement is false...
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