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Subject: I do not understand why faster hardware is better

Author: Derek Paquette

Date: 20:47:04 11/15/03


This is a very ignorant question coming from me,
but I'd love to hear the answers, it is bugging me.

Ok, hypothetical question, Deep Junior 8 is playing against kasparov...
it is a difficult board position, around 7 ply the computer should be coming
across the correct move, there is only 1 correct move to play without a lose
along the road...
now if DJ8 is filtering at 99.99999% of the moves,
why would it matter if it had quad 2.8ghz chips, or even 8 chips...
if its not seeing the move, why would it at 22ply suddenly see it?

on the x3d site there is an excellent article, and it says, a definate way to
beat a super grandmaster is to build a machine running at 1 billion positions a
second, and have it search to only 14ply, making thoroughness over filtering and
deep looking a priority...
so can someone explain to me why faster hardware makes a difference, if even my
home pc can look at ply 18 with deep junior...

thank you.



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