Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 19:06:44 01/13/03
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On January 13, 2003 at 19:08:23, stuart taylor wrote: >Let's get it over with already, (all this DB worship)! >I'm sure we can already say that whichever comes at the top of the ssdf (When >Deep junior/Junior 8 gets tested, and with necesary correction patches), and if >you put that program on the best, but regular hardware, I think we can well >assume it has gone a bit over the DB which embarrassed Kasparov. >I think we can finally safely assume that this multi-million dollar enterprise >which made headlines everywhere, is already exceeded with our bedroom (or living >room) furniture. It was normally 2 years between top existing machine, and level >of what is commercially available. This will now be a clean 6 years. > How much more can we dream?! > >I think that it's safe to say that top commercial computer chess strength has >absolutely outclassed itself atleast twice since then. We have gone from Hiarcs >6 on 266 Mhz. to Fritz 8 on about 2.7 Ghz. I really don't think that deeper blue >would pose any real threat today. OK, it might be very near the top, maybe >second or third, and might stay around there for a couple more years due to its >speed challenge. But what we have now, overall, is surely better. >S.Taylor Where's your data to support your claims? Stuart, you haven't a clue what you're talking about, and you know it...or you should! Without concrete data, you're talking through your hat. Terry
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