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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:48:37 11/09/98

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On November 09, 1998 at 09:31:35, blass uri wrote:

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>On November 09, 1998 at 09:00:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>>I brought this up because *you* were mixing micros of today with deep thought
>>of 7-8 years ago.  From experience, Cray Blitz of today still outplays any
>>micro I know of, yet I know exactly how it did against Deep Thought and
>>"deep blue prototype".
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>In what time control Cray Blitz of today outplays any micro?
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>Did it play against micros of today?
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>Uri

fast games done locally...  IE over the past 3 years I have occasionally
tried CB vs Crafty... and when the result was far worse for Crafty than I
had hoped, I would try CB vs one of a couple of commercial programs I have.
IE Rebel 8 and genius 4.  And they both lost horribly just as crafty did.

Unfortunately I can't play slower games on the cray...  but to offset that I
did give a significant handicap by using only one cpu out of 32 for CB, and
playing 5 secs/move for CB and the opponent.

The program is *very* strong... even on one CPU.  Larry Kaufman played us a
one-game handicap match like this at the Indy ACM event... because I had been
talking about a big handicap match between CB and my Mach III from Fidelity.
We went at it 1 sec for CB (using an 8 processor Cray YMP, about like one T90
cpu today) and 60 seconds per move for Socrates on a (I believe 486/100 or
something similar, a hot notebook at the time).  He was skeptical that we
would win.  Not only did CB win, it won with some crushing tactics...



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