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Subject: Re: Much of Deep Blue's parallel searching was wasted >>>

Author: José Carlos

Date: 04:00:04 10/04/02

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On October 04, 2002 at 06:53:03, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 04, 2002 at 06:39:38, José Carlos wrote:
>
>>On October 04, 2002 at 06:23:12, Terry Ripple wrote:
>>
>>>This is quite an interesting statement from the Fritz team!
>>>
>>>  Friedel(Fritz operator) explained that while Deep Blue searched 200 million
>>>positions per second compared to Deep Fritz's 3-4 million, much of Deep Blue's
>>>parallel searching was wasted as many of its dozens of chips were looking at the
>>>same thing. "Another important difference is that Deep Fritz is a commercial
>>>product while Deep Blue was running on a supercomputer and 15 million dollars
>>>were invested by IBM in the project. But Fritz is definitely not weaker than
>>>Deep Blue," he concluded.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>      Terry
>>
>>  Surprising.
>>  I would expect from Fritz team something like: "Deep Blue was great.
>>Fritz is much slower and thus much weaker, and our parallel search is
>>poorly implemented. If Kramnik loses that'll be pathetic". :)
>>
>>  José C.
>
>Why do you expect it?

  Look at the smily at the end of my sentence.

  José C.



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