Author: Mark Young
Date: 12:20:44 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? > >cheers > martin Chances are the better software would win, but there is no need to do that. You can run them both on todays hardware. The results are crushing for the modern software, and you don't have to go back 5 years for this to be true.
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