Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:43:23 06/11/99
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On June 11, 1999 at 17:42:53, William Bryant wrote: >I think, however, when Hsu brings his chips to market, this will be a __Big__ >jump in computer chess. Although hardware evaluations have been around for some >time ( since Belle ?), they have not be available to the masses, and not at the >performance level he describes. I do think this will qualify, as a __Big__ leap >in performance. > > >My $0.02. > To you, yes. to chess in general? No... because we have _already_ seen a machine run at 200M nodes per second and beat Kasparov. So it won't represent a huge jump in general, although when compared to the micro computers/programs of today, it will represent a jump of +400 Elo or more... >BTW, since IBM is partners in the PPC chip, how about makeing them available for >PPC PCI based systems (_first_). I'd love to put deep blue in my Mac. :) > >William >wbryant@ix.netcom.com
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