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Subject: Re: About Deep Blue

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:37:45 12/23/05

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On December 23, 2005 at 18:22:29, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>As far as know deep blue was based on an actual chess playing program (please
>correct me if am wrong) Dark Thought, does anyone recall the k/Ns for Dark
>Thought on a regular PC at that time?

This is wrong.  Deep Blue came from "deep thought" which was originally
developed at CM University.  Deep Thought came from chiptest, and all three were
based on custom VLSI hardware circuitry...


>
>I am asking this because we could maybe make an estimate of how Dark Thouhgt
>would perform k/Ns wise on PC's of today and get a better understanding of what
>the real speedup was on Deep Blue.


Deep Thought never ran on PCs because of the special-purpose hardware they used.


>
>Maybe i am confusing the program Deep Blue was build up around and maybe it is
>not comparable (apples and oranges as Bob would put it), but if feaseble it
>would make for an interesting comparison/experiement.
>
>Regards
>Jonas



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