Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:27:34 07/11/03
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On July 10, 2003 at 01:53:26, Derek Paquette wrote: >Just read a great post by the author of DIEP, and how he is getting an >Incredible machine, a godly machine I should say, now really, >Would a human even have a chance in hell? its going to be dozens of times faster >than Deep Blue >I know that speed isn't everything, but when you are looking 45ply ahead.... >I put all bets on the machine with 500 processors > >what do the rest of you think? What I think, based on _years_ of experience, is that hardware is only a _part_ of the equation. Fast hardware with buggy program produces bad results. I have done this more than once myself. And no matter how fast you search, if you have bugs in the search or in the evaluation or anywhere else, you just search garbage very quickly. I could point to the 1985 ACM event where we had the best hardware, but a significant evaluation bug (in Cray Blitz). We did poorly. I don't think the hardware will be enough to offset the commercial engine advantage in terms of overall quality and lack of serious bugs.
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