Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 04:23:29 02/16/03
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On February 16, 2003 at 07:10:34, Uri Blass wrote: > >The gap between the best programs and part of the free programs programs is more >than 500 elo on equal hardware. Can you point to the data source that supports this claim. > 500 seems a bigger gap that indicated by SDF and ICC. > >Hardware that is 100 times faster will not be enough to compensate for that >difference. > >We do not know what was the level of the software of deeper blue because it >never played games on equal hardware. Why should it have to play on equal hardware? It was designed to a different paradigm. > >I also doubt the claim that the hardware was 100 times faster and we have no >proof for the number of nodes that it searched(200M nodes could be a >psychological war against kasparov when the real number was only 20M). > >Uri I wish IBM (or someone) would fund Hsu's next chip. Then we would finally be able to answer these questions Of course, some would then deny the facts if they did not fit their expectations ;-)
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