Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 23:51:27 01/13/03
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On January 14, 2003 at 02:32:05, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 14, 2003 at 01:44:30, Luis Smith wrote: > >>On January 13, 2003 at 22:06:44, Terry McCracken wrote: >> >>>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 >> >>Say for instance, Fritz 5.32 and Shredder 7 played a series of games. Fritz >>5.32 was on a Deep Blue's hardware and Shredder 7 had an 8xprocessor computer >>with each processor running at 1 ghz. Despite Shredder's increase in knowledge, >>I would still pick Fritz 5.32 to win simply because of the vast searching power. >> I myself using Fritz 7 on the playchess server have played against a Fritz 5.32 >>on a Dual AMD MP 2200 against my P III 1ghz, despite having a better book and >>newer software, he still tore me to peices... >> >>I think Deep Blue has an edge over an 8x processor commercial engine...I think >>you all underestimate searching power, I think Deep Blue will be well ahead of >>its time for even 2-5 years to come...but then again I know absolutely nothing >>about chess programming and am probably wrong ^_^ >> >>Reguards >>Luis > >Yes > >I think that you forget some important things. > >1)The games that you play are blitz and on blitz better knowledge is not >important. > >I suggest you to try 120/40. > >2)I doubt if shredder has better knowledge than other programs. >There are a lot of positions when Fritz's evaluation is more realistic. > >3)There are logfiles of the game and I found nothing impressive there(I do not >know about a single idea that programs of today needs hours to find). > >My impression based on the games is that deeper blue was not better in tactics >than the programs of today. > >I think that you are overestimating the searching power of deeper blue. > >Uri No..he is not! Deep tactics with such a deep search and how it was accomplished, is very impressive, by any standards. Terry
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