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Subject: Re: Question about DB hardware

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:04:30 11/09/98

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On November 09, 1998 at 20:01:50, jonathan Baxter wrote:

>These famous "chess chips" of DB: did they do a full-blown alpha-beta search
>or did they just do static eval? Seems to me if they just do static eval
>then a plug-in card based on them for a PC is going to have a huge bottleneck
>just getting the positions into the chips.
>
>Jon


they do a full alpha/beta search... basically the last four plies of the
full-width search plus the quiescence search plus the static evaluation...
plus the ability to maintain a chess board, make/unmake, and do other cute
things...



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