Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 17:03:18 01/31/03
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On January 31, 2003 at 13:30:55, George Wilson wrote: > I remember when Rebel Century upgraded to a Pentium 600, it rarely lost to >grandmasters and beat most international master, then when the speed went up to >the pent 866 machines, tiger performed even Better in Argentina, followed by the >extrodinary performance of Rebel against Van Wely, would I be unscientific to >suggest that computers are playing 2600+ on 1000mhz and above? Actually what >surprises me is that the programs Seem to be performing on Single processors as >well as the programs running with 8 processors, The Hiarcs Bareev match, and >Rebel van wely comes to mind. Part of one's playing strength is based on how far one can "foresee" things, but that is not -all- of playing strength. Chess is an exponential problem. The part of playing strength which is based on search depth will not scale linearly as CPUs linearly become faster. -Matt
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