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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:50:15 10/04/02

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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


Frederick is the same person that advised Kasparov that practicing against Fritz
but giving it
a longer time to search would be equivalent to playing against deep blue.

He's _not_ a computer chess expert.  He is _far_ from a parallel search expert.

_any_ program does extra work when searching a tree in parallel.  Including, of
all things,
deep fritz.

take the comparison with a big grain of salt...



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