Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:19:49 10/25/02
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On October 25, 2002 at 08:25:20, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >On October 24, 2002 at 14:37:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 24, 2002 at 13:51:48, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Dear Bob: >>>After reading Behind Deep Blue I wondered whether could'n you create kind of a >>>Crafty in hardware as the guy made with DT. He say the hardware is now lot more >>>accesible and I am sure you could create a good, awful piece of chess iron. A >>>card faster than what a software program can be with even a fast PC. >>>Just a thought... >>>Fernando >> >> >>It is obviously possible. But it is not something I am interested in doing >>because it >>requires a huge amount of effort. It is easier to be lazy, knowing that in 10 >>years, >>the common microprocessor will be as fast as special-purpose hardware designed >>and >>built today. And all I have to do is wait. :) > >Agreed, but from a new Deep Blue like super computer project (e.g. Deep Scrappy) >new achievements could come faster to computer chess. It's like for the car >productions industry, they profit a lot from the Formula 1 and other racing >series, because they produce a huge amount of effort. :) > >So from Deep Scrappy and a new super computer chess league, sponsored by the >richest companies on this planet, with new revolutionary anti-human and other >programming concepts, the CC community could profit a lot. > >Andreas Maybe. But remember that those same "anti-human" ideas are being worked on in the current software version. All the hardware version would do is search hellishly fast. And in reality, it would actually slow down the algorithm development as so much time would have to be invested in the hardware design...
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