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Subject: Re: How the mighty Fritz has fallen :) well sort of :)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:56:09 12/09/04

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On December 09, 2004 at 15:19:20, Murat wrote:

>>
>>searching deeper is done thanks to programming improvement.
>>You seem to assume that programming improvement are only about evaluation.
>>
>>You are simply wrong.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Thank you for replying Uri.
>I am not a programmer but just a person who is fascinated with computer chess
>since first time I saw mr Spock playing with one in startrek over 30 years ago.
>
>Programing improvements? Sure they are there, just like anything else things
>improve.
>
>But what if IBM pc stayed at 4.7mhz you think any of the latest programs could
>beat or tie Kasparov?

I agree that there was a big improvement in hardware since 4.7mhz
>
>in reverse take chess genius 3.0. it its day it was powerfull on a P90. now give
>it 256mb hash and a huge opening book plus endgame database and run it on a P4
>3.0 ghz+ I think it will beat GM chess players all day.
>
>Thank you for listening
>
>best regards to all
>
>Murat...

Richard lang dominated for many year but after having Genius3 he stopped to work
on his program(later genius were near the same strength).

It took other programmers years to get to the same level so there was no
improvement or almost no improvement from Genius3 until 1997

In spite of it I think that more than 20% of the improvement is software
improvement.

Genius3 is proabably more than 200 elo weaker than shredder8 on the same
hardware (even if you give it no tablebases and a small book) and the
improvement in software from P90 to the hardware of today is less than 400 elo.

Uri



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