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Subject: what was for CC advancement in the last years: hardware or software?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 09:26:53 11/14/03


we all know computer chess has evolved a lot over the last years. the top
programs are now battling (and beating) the very best players on the planet.
mainly through consistency, but sometimes also with non-materialistic moves that
computers would IMO not have made a few years ago (...Bxh2! by junior against
kasparov, ...OO! giving up the exchange by fritz yesterday).

question: is this progress more due to hardware or more due to software
advancements?

or in other words: if you took a top program of today (e.g. the current
fritz/shredder/junior) and ran it on 5-year old hardware against a 5-year old
fritz/shredder/junior version on today's hardware: which combination would win?

cheers
  martin



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