Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 08:12:16 11/07/02
If one factors out the impacts of hardware improvements, isn't it true that the top engines, like Fritz, are just about as good as they are going to get due to software improvements? Sure, there will be refinements and the plugging of holes. Ignore them. But what about the BIG deficiencies of engines which everybody knows about but, so far, noone knows how to eliminate? For example: deficiencies in long-term strategy, planning, endgame, etc. Will solutions to these problems have to wait for big hardware improvements? For now, the hardware seems to be improving in three ways: (1) Speed (2) Processor complexity [total number of circuit elements] (3) Multiprocessor Will solutions to the big problems have to wait for the availability of new computer hardware architectures involving a large number of processors? Bob D.
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