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Subject: Re: Adams-HYDRA Announcement

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 13:16:35 05/24/05

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On May 24, 2005 at 14:57:25, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 24, 2005 at 14:51:01, GuyHaworth wrote:
>
>>
>>Channel 4 TV has a story that Michael Adams is to play HYDRA in a 6-game match,
>>? in London next month.
>>
>>"The smart money's on the chip, which is 6x more powerful than DEEP BLUE".  No
>>reference to Adams tailing off badly at the Mtel event.
>
>Deep Blue hit one billion NPS (with full eval) peak and 200M NPS sustained.
>6x that would be 1.2 Billion NPS sustained.

There is contradictory information on this. Hsu was finally pinned down on the
issue and it turned out that the 1 billion NPS figure is a theoretical peak. The
200 million NPS figure is the practical peak with 120 million NPS the sustained
figure. Of course, it is the latter figure that is most useful, but the 1
billion figure was tailor made for hyperbole.

>
>>Mmm:  I guess the usual discussion will start but this seems hype to me.
>>However, it confirms that the 'DEEP_BLUE' is still taken as the 'SI unit' of
>>computer chess.
>
>It's the stuff that legends are made of.



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