Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 11:10:27 11/14/03
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On November 14, 2003 at 12:26:53, martin fierz wrote: >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? What was state of the art but affordable PC hardware in 1998? What were the best programs (and versions) in 1998? -- GCP
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