Author: blass uri
Date: 14:57:05 01/05/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 16:53:34, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: > > >Of course you are correct in this. Microsoft could very easily purchase the >entire computer chess software industry in one bite, and probably not even >notice it on their balance sheet. > >I do doubt, however, that by doing so, and thowing tons of cash and talent at >the problem, that MS would significantly advance the state of the art. Their >program would be able to combine the best of all the programs that they would >purchase, and that in and of itself would make the program better, but would the >strength improve much? I know that the databases would be great, and the >interface could be spectacular, but I don't really think they could much improve >on what ChessBase or Ed Schroeder could do. For many, for example, Fritz 5 has a >near-perfect interface, near-perfect database features, and near-perfect >strength. I think that no program has near perfect strength. I see Fritz5.32 and other top programs do stupid mistakes that I will not do in computer-computer games so I cannot say it is near to perfect. If ChessBase wanted, they could *easily* combine Fritz 5 and ChessBase >7, and make the interface fully Win95 compliant while keeping all the positives, >and would produce (for many people) the perfect chess program. And they could do >it for virtually nothing. > >To me, in a way, it's like asking if you paid some ballplayer $1,000,000,000 a >year if he could bat .750 and hit 150 home runs. No matter how much money you >throw at the problem, you run up against some fundamental limitations. No matter >how much money somebody spends on chess programs, I don't think that you could >produce a 3000 rated program (at 40/2) on today's hardware. I believe it is possible to produce a 3000 rated program on today's hardware I am not sure if humans are inteligent enough to do it but I believe that 1,000,000,000$ are enough to produce at least 2800 program Uri
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