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Subject: Re: About Deep Blue

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 20:32:34 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?
>
>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.
>
>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

Jonas, you need to visit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue

and

http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/

--Stuart




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