Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:23:19 06/11/99
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On June 11, 1999 at 10:18:29, Torstein Hall wrote: >On June 10, 1999 at 21:53:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On June 10, 1999 at 15:24:02, Michael Fuhrmann wrote: >> >>>Can today's best chess engines become significantly more powerful through >>>software improvements alone, or have we reached the point where hardware >>>improvements are necessary to make that next BIG step? >> >> >>there will never be any _large_ jumps... but there will be small increments >>for as long as someone is interested in computer chess programming. And over >>time, small steps travel great distances... > >How do you know? >Could it not be made big jumps in new programming techniques? >Or is more or less every conncivable new idea already used up? > >Torstein I don't "know"... but my guess is based on a lot of experience. IE since the first chess program played in the 1950's, what 'major breakthrough' has happened? alpha/beta? 1950's transposition tables? greenblatt, 1960's null-move? everyone doesn't even do this. full-width? 1950's selective search? 1950's quiescence/capture? 1950's parallel search? late 1970's endgame databases? late 1970's opening books? 1950's ie nothing really "new" in a long time. just slow improvements + rapid hardware performance advances. ie we have _long_ been in a cycle of 'evolution' and not 'revolution' in computer chess... and there's nothing wrong with it. So long as the slope on the curve is positive, progress is possible...
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