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Subject: Re: When will a deep Blue equivalent Be commercially Available?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 17:13:45 11/06/98

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On November 06, 1998 at 19:35:58, G.Mueller wrote:

>On November 06, 1998 at 18:48:39, odell hall wrote:
>
>>I am interested in knowing, if even by a wild guess when a program with the
>>strength of deepblue will be available to the public? Five years? or maybe
>>three?
>In my opinion this will be realized in two years, because Hardware will be
>faster and faster, next year we will have Processors with 600 Mhz....
>And chessprogrammers do a lot to write stronger and stronger programmes.
>
>best wishes G. Mueller

I think it will be decades..... In the last 5 years or so we have gone from
maybe 33 Mhz to 600 Mhz.... That is at most a 20-40 fold increase. Deep blue is
at lease 1,000 times faster.

James



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