Author: Peter Berger
Date: 10:02:19 04/11/03
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On April 11, 2003 at 12:20:31, Christophe Theron wrote: >>That's a silly stance to take. If you look at the progress of computer chess >>over the last 10 years I would wager the *vast* majority of the progress can be >>attributed to speedups in hardware. Simple test - take a 10-year old chess >>program and run it on today's hardware and see what it's strength is. (OK so >>maybe I'm overstating things here - this would be an interesting test, has it >>been done?) > > > >On equal hardware the programs of 10 years ago get slaughtered. This is not true at the very top IMHO if you make the comparison on 10 year old hardware. (I hope Genius 3 is 10 years old already :) ). On a 486DX50 Genius still is a powerhouse. Peter
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