Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 04:53:11 03/23/99
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On March 23, 1999 at 02:52:20, Frank Schneider wrote: >On March 23, 1999 at 00:12:59, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>Preliminary list seems OK. We have 7 TOP programs from SSDF! But is it true, >>that we have only 3 mainframe chess projects in whole world?! > >Well, that is interesting, isn't it? There are some other programs that >use multiple processors (Crafty, SOS, ...), but after DeepBlue there are >only few supercomputer-projects left. Why? IMHO the current situation is still >interesting, because the DB-project stopped although the Kasparov-DB match >prooved (IMO) that DB is *not* significantly stronger than Kasparov. >Therefore I'd like to see some successor to DB - as a research-project or >sponsored by a company. > > >Frank As I have mentioned before, Cray Blitz is _very strong_ when compared to the best micros of today. But machine time is _very_ difficult to set up, and test time even harder. Which is why I moved away from a Cray and onto a machine that is readily available. I hate to miss this event, but fortunately I have played in enough of them that perhaps 'my time' is over anyway. I was going to show up with a 5-10M node per second crafty however, on a multiple cpu alpha. Would have been fast. Best of luck to those that go of course. _particularly_ to the 'amateurs'. :) They are the ones having fun, just like me... :) Bob
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