Author: Paul Richards
Date: 11:11:33 05/13/99
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On May 13, 1999 at 11:34:23, Chris Carson wrote: >Potential Advosary: DB the chip > 30M NPS single chip, up to 4 supported > estimated price $200 single chip > strength: strong GM at tournament time controls Where did you get the price info? If I can get a 4-processor version doing 120M nps for $800, I'm there baby. :)) >How do the win/tel programs strike back? They won't need to just because of the price difference. If you are serious about analyzing chess positions, particularly if you're a competitor looking for new variations, you will buy this thing (assuming it is as strong as it's made out to be). But I imagine the interface and features will be lacking compared to something as mature as Fritz. For training and sorting through game databases and so forth, the commercial programs are way ahead. The strange aspect of it is, if this thing will be that strong, why bother looking at games from any humans other than the top few? This thing could produce higher quality games just playing against itself. :) In other words huge game databases might become obsolete, since most of the games will be blunder city, relatively speaking. Since the greatest strength of such a device would be analysis, I hope they are smart enough to provide top-notch analysis features in the interface. To make it just something to play against would make it worthless, since the commercials are already too strong for 99.9999% of the market.
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