Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 07:27:58 01/29/99
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On January 29, 1999 at 09:51:36, William H Rogers wrote: >Would todays top chess program be as good as or better if they were played on >the Deep Blue Machine. >The heart of the Deep Blue Machine is hard wired mover generator. It is capable >of making millions of moves per second, while todays top programs rely on chess >logic, so if today top programs were using millions of moves per second combined >with their own logic, I believe they would destroy Deep Blue or any other Chess >Master. >Bill I can't agree... 1) It's absolutely impossible to transform the pc chess programs around to Deep Blue hardware. 2) If it would be possible, not one line of code would be optimized to use that kind of hardware so the performance would be a disaster compared to Deep B. 3) If Deep B. didn't have a great deal of chess logic, despite its speed, they would have been crushed by Kasparov - they were not... 4) Todays pc chess programms, spend a great deal of effort to get faster and deeper - the cost is less chess logic and risky optimizations. Deep B don't have to do this. In fact they could concentrate mainly on chess logic between the two matches played against K. My conlusion is that Deep B must have a lot of chess logic inside the shell, compared to todays pc pogram, probably more than most of them. The speed gives you possibilities to concentrate on chess logic, not the other way around. //Peter
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