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Subject: Re: How Small Can a Chess Engine Get?

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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