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Subject: Re: Educated guess needed!

Author: Ralph E. Carter

Date: 12:36:07 12/10/98

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On December 09, 1998 at 15:47:57, Mark Young wrote:

>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.

If frogs had pockets...
Did you read my previous post? Your question makes *no* sense.
The technology is *not* available. *I* have studied the matter.
These off-hand hypotheticals go nowhere.

>
>
>>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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