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Subject: Re: Educated guess needed!

Author: Lanny DiBartolomeo

Date: 05:44:32 12/09/98

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On December 09, 1998 at 08:35:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 09, 1998 at 06:36:02, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>Many of use have played over the games of Deep Blue Vs GM Kasparov , and Rebel
>>10 Vs GM Anand.
>>
>>My question is what do you think would be the stronger chess program, and by how
>>much:
>>
>>Deep Blue, or Rebel 10 (K6 450Mhz) * 1000
>
>
>this question makes no sense.  In the two longer games Rebel had no real chance,
>while deep blue won the match it played.  You aren't going to see a rebel*1000
>in the next hundred years, probably.  Because technology is nowhere near even
>thinking about machines with picosecond cycle types.  The technology to produce
>such technology doesn't exist yet...
>
>The next problem is that a special-purpose piece of hardware will *always* be
>orders of magnitude faster than general-purpose hardware, so that if we wait for
>a 1000x faster rebel, we get a 10000x faster deep blue in the process...

I believe he's just asking (if it were possible) and both where run at the ame
exact settings which one would be stronger.



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