Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 17:27:24 05/03/99
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Thanks for your posting, Richard! This is certainly interesting news, a possible Deep Blue for consumers. If Mr. Hsu could really produce a chip that searches 30 million pos./sec this would be about 150 times faster than the best current desktop PC's running commercial chessprograms. At the selectivity Deep Blue seems to have used, 1000 nodes for a 4 ply search, (This only applies for certain to the first 8 plies of a typical 12 ply search, so not using the chips), 150 nodes would translate to almost a 3 ply search. Every existing program could thus extend every endnode by three plies, at a negligable cost in CPU time, in the time it used to do it's own endnode evaluation! This is assuming Mr. Hsu would be willing to make his chip an open standard, I personally would very much hope he does.
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