Author: Keith Evans
Date: 11:41:07 04/11/03
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On April 11, 2003 at 12:20:31, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 11, 2003 at 00:43:18, Jay Urbanski wrote: > >>On April 11, 2003 at 00:22:49, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >> >>>My goal is to have the strongest chess program running on single processor >>>computers. Whatever the size of these computers. >> >>That's an interesting but it seems somewhat arbitrary goal. Why have this >>limitation? You might as well say your goal is to have the fastest engine >>running on a CPU that is half as fast as is currently available on the market. > > > >The idea is that I am more interesting in progress in the chess algorithms than >in progress in hardware, because I believe that there is a lot to gain with >better algorithms. > >I will benefit from progress in hardware even if I don't care about it anyway. > <snip> > > >This week end I have participated in a human chess tournament with the PalmOS >version of Chess Tiger running on a Tungsten-T (2150 FIDE elo approx.). Chess >Tiger was not in the competition, so I went there just for fun. > >THAT is really interesting. A lot of fun, and it really makes the years I have >spent on the project worth it. > > > > Christophe Besides not getting too excited about SMP, does the fact that you're targeting mobile devices have a significant impact on your engine's development? For example are you building more and more endgame knowledge into the engine rather than focusing on support for larger and larger tablebases? Keith
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