Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 14:59:35 03/30/99
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On March 30, 1999 at 03:11:20, Harald Faber wrote: >On March 29, 1999 at 18:20:42, Tom Glenn wrote: > >>There is an interesting article by Feng-hsiung Hsu in the new IEEE Micro journal >>This is the Mar/Apr 99 issue . ( http://computer.org/micro/ ) >>The website is a members only thing , and I'm not..... >>The lengthy article had alot of info about the capability of DB , and DB Jr. >>A couple highlights : >> He reiterates the 10 - 0 score of DB Jr vs leading micros , and >>goes on to say there were 40 total games played against the commercials , and >>DB Jr only dropped 2 pts. Also , DB Jr scored better than a 3:1 ratio against >>the GM's working on the project. >> The last paragraph states that he is forming an independent start-up >>company to create a new chess chip for consumers , that would make it possible >>for a desktop machine to defeat the world champ in a formal match by 2000 .... > >That confirms my assumption that Hsu has gone ***... >A chess chip becoming WC in 2000....nonsense. I don't see why you are so dismissive of this. I'll just wait and see myself. It seems reasonable to believe that Hsu can make significant improvements to his chess chip and associated software. For a start, chip fabrication techniques are constantly improving so there will of course be an 'automatic' speedup. I seem to remember that they hurried out a redesigned chip between the first and second Kasparov matches, so it is likely that a number of shortcuts were taken there to get it done in time. Fixing these things, plus applying any leasons learnt when testing and tuning that chip, could conceivably result in a significant improvement. Don't forget that designing hardware is different to programming software. In software, if you find a problem you can usually hack a fix pretty fast. In hardware, you pretty much have to live with it or work around it until you can build your next prototype/version which may be some time off. Hsu may have a good number of fixes stored up waiting to be implemented. I wouldn't write him off, he's done it once already :-) cheers, Peter
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