Author: Christopher R. Dorr
Date: 06:03:48 05/03/99
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I don't see why it would have a great impact. Being hardware based, it would cost significantly more, and there are many people who would be reluctant to pop open their case, and toss in a card, when they could more easily do a simple software install. And why? Find me a non-GM who can regularly beat Fritz or Rebel or Genius on a PII400. I doubt you'll find one. Heck, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who could regularly beat Crafty on a Pentium 200 MMX. To most people, it makes no real difference whether their program is FIDE 2500 or FIDE 2650....they get their clock cleaned either way. I'm a Master, and I can't really tell much of a difference between Fritz running on my P5/75 laptop, and on my 266 at home. I get whumped pretty regularly by both. So why would it make much difference to the average (USCF 1500) player whether he was outrated 1200 point, or a mere 1000? There is n o real advantage to having DBjr, other than being able to say that you own the strongest computer on earth. Chris On May 02, 1999 at 12:01:56, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >If the article by the father of Deep Blue -look at Gambitsoft- is not just an >exercize of rethoric, maybe next year w'll have a card for our PC with a kind of >home Deep Blues that according the man would be capable of beating the world >champ. Any of you knows more about the feasibility of that? And what will happen >to the rest of the industry -rebel, m-chess, etc- if such a monster really >arrives to our hands? Opinions? >Fernando
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