Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:43:18 11/15/03
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On November 14, 2003 at 14:10:27, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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? I remember that in paris at the end of 1997 most programs used PII300 mhz. > >What were the best programs (and versions) in 1998? Fritz5 was the leader of the ssdf in 1998 some programs that are slightly worse from that time are hiarcs6 or genius5 and I am not sure if Junior5 that was also slightly worse is from the end of 1998 or from the beginning of 1999. I decided not to use Fritz at that time for my correspondence games because I watched horrible branching factors if I give it more than some minutes. I saw the same later with hiarcs and the only programs that I knew to trust not to have this problem from that time is Junior5 or Genius3 so I suspect that if you use 120/40 on fast hardware for old programs then it is better to use one of these programs for testing Uri
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