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Subject: Re: What Would it take to Hardware-ize Crafty?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 15:14:28 02/17/04

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On February 17, 2004 at 17:47:56, Slater Wold wrote:

>About $50,000 and 2 years.

It might be worth it!  think marketing!

Bob D.
>
>
>On February 17, 2004 at 16:56:46, Bob Durrett wrote:
>
>>
>>If one ignores the many anticipated objections to doing this research, then what
>>would it take?
>>
>>I can see the following process:
>>
>>(1)  A list of blocks of code which could be "hardware-ized" is made and the
>>list ordered in order of decreasing expected benefit.
>>
>>(2)  Then, the powers that be would decide which blocks to do that to.
>>
>>(3)  Then it would be done.  Testing and tuning would follow.
>>
>>(4)  Then a match would be set up with Kasparov.
>>
>>(5)  Etceteras.
>>
>>By "hardware-izing" I mean creating a chip which could input it's input data,
>>process that data, and output that data all within the time of a few clock
>>cycles of a modern microprocessor chip.
>>
>>QUESTIONS:
>>
>>Which block of Crafty code would be chosen first?  How much benefit to expect?
>>
>>Same questions for second block of code.
>>
>>Etceteras for the rest of the code until nothing is left.
>>
>>Bob D.



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