Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 03:42:00 03/31/99
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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. The quote says "a desktop machine". It does not say "one chess chip". I'd expect there to be many chess chips in one machine. Total hand-wave here: if there were 16 chips per PCI card, and 4 PCI slots on a mainboard, that'd be 64 chess processors in all. Now if a (Dual? Quad? More? :-) Pentium III can keep them busy, I can readily imagine such a machine opening up a can of serious whoop-ass. :) Dave Gomboc
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