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Subject: Re: How is Hydra faster and better than Deep Blue?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:40:37 05/30/05

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On May 30, 2005 at 11:32:48, Bo Persson wrote:

>The Deep Blue teem chose not to complicate the search too much, because their
>speed advantage was big enough anyway at the time.

What nonsense! They set out to build the strongest thing they could - they had
no way of knowing beforehand that "it would be big enough anyway".

A more reasonable explanation was that a complicated search would be a nightmare
to get working *in hardware* *in parallel*.

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GCP



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