Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 03:23:08 01/09/99
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On January 08, 1999 at 20:07:06, Mark Young wrote: >If Microsoft devoted substantial resources to the creation of a chess playing >program, and devoted one year to the project, how would that program compare (in >terms of playing strength only) to the best professional chess playing programs >on today's market? > >** > >What is the point of this poll question? In a sense, IBM has already done this. > >If the point of this question were to mean the chess program must be run on a >desktop computer, the results would still be the same. It would be better then >the other professional chess programs, if that would be the goal for Microsoft. > >For Microsoft, substantial resources would mean millions of dollars, a team of >programmers, a team of computer chess experts (ex. Bob Hyatt), and a team of >high rated professional chess players. All working together to meet the goal. > >With that kind of resources I don’t think the goal of just topping, the best >professional chess programs in terms of playing strength currently out would be >much of a challenge. I would like to know one thing, why would Microsoft want to invest the time and money to create a chess program. Its not as though it is big market. Plus what are we going to need to run this program, I suggest with the millions of dollars invested that the program would be graphically power hungry along with the power and memory to then go and run the chess engine. I woulds suggest 128 Ram, PII450. 16Meg 2D graphics Card. I think too many people when hearing this will jump on the bandwagon thinking that a big company will create a powerful program, This from a company who takes 2 years over to release operating systems and even when they do is full of bugs. Its like Deep Blue, used on a super computer, I do not think Microsoft would create a program more powerful than the others on the market. Not unless it was used on a future PII 850 and the rest were running on a PII 450.
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