Author: Sylvain Renard
Date: 00:27:16 04/02/99
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On April 01, 1999 at 19:15:36, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>New fritz 6 under preparation:
>includes 1) The King v3 ,Fritz 6/32 and Hiarcs 8 (32 bit)chess engines, (all of
>which are optimised for the P III 500 and can accept upto .5 Gb of hash
>tables)2)these engines can be modified in their evaluation parameters (or
>personalities) according to the computer opponent 3)massive opening book
>database consisting of hundreds of thousands of winning lines (opening book can
>again be set acc to the computer opponent) 4) parallel versions of above chess
>engines to be released later which can take advantage of Win NT and multiple
>processors.5)top english grandmaster with great interest in computer chess
>recruited to aid positional knowledge of new fritz 6 engine.6) possible purchase
>of the design of the deep blue chess chips by chess base (modified by and sold
>by chessbase in collaboration with a top japanese semiconductor manufacturer as
>a PCI card will result in upto 1.5 times speed gain as compared to primary
>pentium processor.
>
>Above programme to become available by the millenium and expected to crush all
>other chess programmes
>rajen Gupta
Yes today, everybody laughs because all this seems overrated.
But I think in 5 years everybody would laugh for the opposite
reason : what?! 500 MHz only? .5 Gb of Hashtables? ridiculous!!!
Best regards,
Sylvain Renard
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