Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:14:17 08/30/04
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On August 30, 2004 at 03:44:45, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 29, 2004 at 21:27:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Here is a quote from ICC: >> >>quote on=================================================== >>DIEP(C DM)(64): because they claimed having 'solved' chess and people like hyatt >>supporting that indirectly (by saying that nothing ever can get better than that >>old program) >>quote off================================================== >> >>This is _another_ case where I want to see a _specific_ quote, or a specific >>citation for an article where I made that statement (nothing can ever get better >>than DB). I've never said it. I've never implied it. In fact, I have been >>quoted more than once where I predicted that hardware would eventually take us >>well beyond DB's speed/performance. >> >>My quote was that in 1997, it would take 10+ years for a micro-computer based >>program to approach DB's speed. Today I can hit 10M nodes per second on a quad >>opteron, 20M on an 8-way. Probably approaching 40M on a 16-way box. That isn't >>as fast as DB, but it is in the ballpark. And I still have 3 more years on my >>"prediction". Next year AMD has promised a dual-core opteron, so that 16-way >>box will instantly become a 32-way box. 80M if there is no clock speed >>improvement, yet they say it will be faster via clock as well. So 2007 may be >>enough time to hit 200M roughly, if not more. > >I agree that vincent's claim had no basis but remember that there is a >difference between better and faster. > >I do not believe that humans are close to writing the best software and >I believe that improvement in software that is equivalent to being 100 times >faster is possible. > >Uri I _believe_ it is possible to search one node and play the best move possible. But I am not sure it will ever happen. In the case of DB, it seems pretty clear that faster _was_ better, based on their results against GM players.
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