Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 04:54:55 03/23/99
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On March 23, 1999 at 07:52:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Sorry for the duplicate post. I _hate_ netscape.
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