Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:36:15 02/27/99
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On February 27, 1999 at 14:48:30, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>On February 27, 1999 at 11:46:11, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On February 26, 1999 at 22:09:32, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>
>>>On February 26, 1999 at 13:16:01, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>It is clear to me since several years that being a good chess player is a
>>>>serious handicap for anybody trying to write a top level chess program.
>>>>
>>>>Every rule has its exceptions, so I guess you can find some. But can you list
>>>>strong chess players that wrote good chess programs? I'm not even sure Larry
>>>>Kaufman can be included in the list, because he does not program.
>>>
>>>Interesting theory, of course Hans Berliner is the obvious exception to it.
>>
>>Are you sure? Hitech was a nice program, but it was a long time ago. How would
>>Berliner's program compare to current strong programs?
>
>Pretty well, I'd imagine.
>
>> Christophe
>
>Dave Gomboc
I'm still not sure. Last time (to my knowledge) Hitech played in the World
Championship, it was in May 95 in Honk Hong, on a fast supercomputer.
It finished in the 6th place. Ranking of the first places were:
1. Fritz (4/5, 5/6)
2. Star Socrates (4/5, 4/6)
3. Deep Blue, Frenchess, Junior (3.5/5)
6. Rebel, Genius, WChess, Zugzwang, Hitech (3/5)
11. Cheiron, Virtua Chess, Schach 3 (2.5/5)
...
Several microprocessor based programs (on P90 and P120 I think) did better or as
well as Hitech which was computing 120000 positions per second. The micros were
far from this (except Fritz maybe, but with a much simpler evaluation).
I think Hitech could be overplayed by current programs/processor combinations,
unless they have improved their hardware.
BTW, does anybody know if Berliner is still working on his chess program?
Christophe
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