Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:09:23 06/12/99
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On June 11, 1999 at 23:23:25, Paul Richards wrote: >On June 11, 1999 at 20:43:23, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >>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... > >I think it will have a substantial impact in the home preparation of >top players, and this will have a trickle down effect on the popularity >of particular opening variations. Sure.. but we are apparently having a slight grammatical misunderstanding. The original discussion was "will computer chess make any substantial leaps forward?" and I responded _no_. And from my perspective, that was a correct statement, because we _already_ have a deep blue at 200M nodes per second, and have had one for over 2 years... so the DB chip Hsu plans to market won't represent any huge jump forward. A huge jump beyond where current micro- programs are? Sure. But not an _overall_ huge jump in computer chess... I think that is where the communication is breaking down. We've had very fast hardware chess engines since the 70's, three iterations of belle, the first with a move generator, the second with hardware eval, the last the full-blown search+everything belle that won the 1980 WCCC. Then we had Greenblatt's CHEOPS, BEBE, Deep Thought, HiTech, and Deep Blue... The average consumer didn't have access to such boxes of course.. but they were around in the computer chess circles...
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