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Subject: Re: SW vs HW in Computer Chess?

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 13:05:59 10/27/02

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On October 27, 2002 at 14:32:21, Chris Carson wrote:

>I am curious what this forum thinks with regards to the following:
>
>1.  How strong is strong enough for Computer Chess?  3000 ELO, 3200 ELO,
>stronger?
>
>2.  Do we really need more speed (faster HW, no doubt this makes program x
>stronger) or is sw improvements (on a 3Ghz machine) enough to make most people
>here happy?  Which do you want to pay for HW, SW or both?
>
>For me, 400 ELO above the strongest GM would be plenty.  HW vs SW makes no
>difference to me, I will buy SW and HW upgrades for a while to come, but the HW
>upgrades are harder and harder for me to justify, the SW is easier for me to
>swollow. :)

400 ELO above the strongest GM? Chris, that ain't gonna happen for sometime to
come, regardless of either SW or HW, or the combination of the two:-)

Terry



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