Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:28:12 01/29/99
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5 minutes of deep blue time, at 1000x faster than your machine = 83 hours Deep Blue had very good opening books. As I said, they are a database company. There is no way that a PC would ever have any advantage over such a machine by the use of some pitiable PC technology. Consider how fast a mainframe can search through a disk file. I don't know how fast deep blue was but I do know that some mainframe super computers have a multi-gigabit bus and can do I/O at 500M/sec. (That's an "M" not a "K"). They could create and search opening books and endgame tablebase files that cannot even be imagined for a PC. Mainframes are still around, and there is a reason for it. Chess is a searching task, and Mainframes are information searchers. PC's would be absolutely clubbed even with stupid handicaps. And why should they accept any sort of handycap anyway? It's sort of like, "I can beat the best swordfighter in the world if we blindfold him, make him use his left hand, and make him use a 10 inch rapier." What exactly does a contest like that prove? There is a computer that might stand a chance, but chess algorithms would have to be completely re-written (probably). The internet is the most powerful computer in the world, far more powerful than deep blue. But the coordination of all those nodes would require software that does not exist. And there is considerable question over whether chess is completely separable in that way.
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