Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 08:40:16 10/27/02
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On October 27, 2002 at 11:17:04, Knut Bjørnar Wålberg wrote: >On October 27, 2002 at 10:44:18, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On October 27, 2002 at 10:42:05, Bob Durrett wrote: >> >>>How Small Can a Chess Engine Get? >>> >>>Maybe the question should be: "How many chess engines per square inch on a >>>wafer will be doable in the future? >>> >>>Part of the my problem is that I do not know how many electronic components >>>[resistive, transistor, etc.] are required to make a chess engine. How many? >>> >>> >>>Bob D. > >Concerning the chess engine... > >Doesn't that depend on what you demand from the chess engine? You could just >implement the rules of chess and a simple greedy, 1-ply evaluation. But I >suspect you are looking for something a bit stronger? If you'd want to implement >the chess-knowledge of a GM in hardware, I suspect you might get a *slightly* >larger chip. :) > >Knut Bjørnar Wålberg Seems reasonable. Not sure what somebody might want in the future. (a) A Fritz8 or better, or (b) a simple engine which would suffice for use in a multi-engine machine using thousands or millions of the simple engines. Bob D.
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