Author: blass uri
Date: 06:25:23 01/09/99
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On January 09, 1999 at 06:23:08, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >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 that IBM payed to the right people to help them. >, 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. They would not do it only because they do not want to do it. I think that they can do a better program and I explained it in other posts about this subject. It is only a question of money. Uri
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