Author: Matt Frank
Date: 11:04:32 02/27/99
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On February 27, 1999 at 13:38:01, Ted Hogan wrote: >On February 27, 1999 at 12:34:27, Don Dailey wrote: > >>Remember that we are not talking about computers of Anands strength >>either, he is still MUCH stronger than the weak Grandmaster we are >>talking about. The question is "have the top micro's touched the >>Grandmaster barrier yet." Even if they have, they have a lot of >>distance to cover to reach Anand's level. I think this distance >>will be covered relativily quickly however, in just a few years. > > >Hello Don, > >Remember the Deeper Blue vs. GM Kasparov match I would say these two (2) players >were fairly evenly matched, therefore, if this is factual I submit that Micro's >still have a long way to go.....just think of the difference in hardware between >a P450 and the IBM multi-processsor....a huge gap there...I think a few years is >wishful thinking, for a home PC-Micro maybe ten (10) years !! > >IMHO:)) > >Take care ! I would like to submit the argument that the top micro programs (e.g., Hiarcs 7, Rebel 10 EOC Anti-Grand Master, and Fritz 5.32) have features that Deeper Blue did not have; assuming the information on Deeper Blue is reliable. For example, Deeper Blue did not have a learning function to my knowledge. Even if it did, it relied on a huge multi-processing configuration to do the calcuations, and this feature alone introduces software technical issues that the present single CPU micro programs don't have to deal with. My major point is this; Deeper Blue (circa 1997) was not as evolved a software system (please note: SOFTWARE SYSTEM) as todays micro based programs. And consequently, was not able to squeeze as much chess playing skill out of its enourmous computational resouces compared to todays micro/software configs. In fact if Deeper Blue's software could be made to play as slow as on a typical Pentium 450 machine it would get beaten severely by todays programs, IMHO. Best regards, Matt Frank
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