Author: Don Dailey
Date: 11:27:34 02/28/99
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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 ! It depends on how you estimate Deep Blue's strength which is not known. The current world champion however is Fritz. Deep Blue came in 3rd at the last world championships with only 3 decisive games out of 5 (one of them was against Cilkchess.) Fritz was playing on a pentium 90 and is much better today in software AND hardware. Of course the current Deep Blue is better than the one that played there too but so is every other program, and by a huge amount. It is just my opinion, but 10 years is a huge amount of time in computer terms. I don't think you will have to wait nearly that long to have a Deep Blue strength program sitting on your desktop. - Don
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