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Subject: Re: Educated guess needed!

Author: Mark Young

Date: 12:47:57 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.

You miss the point of the question, but thats ok.

  In the two longer games Rebel had no real chance,

Ok, If Rebel or any current top program could run 1000 times faster, Would it
then have a chance in a match with Kasparov or Anand. And would that chance be
better or worse then the last version of Deep Blue. IYO.


>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...



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