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Subject: Re: Better PCs for Better Chess?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:48:23 11/12/02

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On November 12, 2002 at 10:38:54, Bob Durrett wrote:

>Is there any hope for these instruction set and "paucity of registers" problems
>to go away in home PCs anytime soon?

Yes. The new 64-bit chips from Intel and AMD have improvements in
this area.

>Also, any additional insights out there as to how much easier it would be to
>program the PCs to play chess if these problems were to go away somehow?
>
>i.e. As a practical matter, would this be a big improvement for PC chess
>computer programmers?  Would everybody cheer loudly?

The improvement will simply be that the programs will run faster.

--
GCP



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