Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:49:56 01/29/99
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On January 29, 1999 at 19:30:09, Matt Frank wrote: [snip] >Btw, on another post you mentioned that Deep Blue ran on about 64000 MHZ and you >implied that we are far from accomplishing that with PCs and therefore catching >Kasparov with micros is a distant dream. I dare say that the present (top of the >line software, Hiarcs 7 Fritz 5.32, etc.) software designed to run on >contemoprary PCs is much better designed compared to Deep Blue's software fit >to take advantage of it's computing power. After all these computer programers >have been working for many years in ahighly competitive environment, working >with machines that they understand very well, compared to the Deep Blue >experiment, which utilized cutting edge parallel processing hardware running at >enourmous sppeds with software designers not having to compete with business >competitors. The Deep Blue machine had 256 Chess CPU's. By the term "Chess CPU", that means the native instructions were things like "Nxb4" These CPU's calculated 256,000,000 NPS. About a factor of 1000 faster than the best available current systems, give or take a factor of 4 (depending on your budget and the kind of searching you do). The Budget for the Deep Blue project must have been orders of magnitude greater than any resouces available to the best equipped PC programming team. People have an image of IBM as some stodgy old guys standing around in black suits, but you had better believe that they have some of the best research and development teams in the world. Just do a web search for "IBM fellows" and you will find some pretty impressive names. In short, I think you have it exactly backwards. Consider also the competition of Kasparov with an ELO of about 2800, and at his prime. The ELO scale is an exponential one, so that means Kasparov is many, many times better than a 2500 GM (they would only expect a scoring average of about 15% against him). We really don't know where the Micros are right now. They might be better than we think. They might be worse than we think. But one thing is for sure, Deep Blue would still be leaps and bounds ahead, were it still all in one piece.
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