Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 19:57:41 07/15/99
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On July 15, 1999 at 22:00:27, Charles Unruh wrote: > This question might be of use to commercial programmers, to know what sort of >style "most" people like to play against or watch. The program with the most >exciting and enjoyable style to me is the TRUE chess system tal which is >CHESSMASTER(5555-6000)!! > Unfortunately i fear that we may not get to see as many of chessmaster's >fantastic brilliancies once the ssdf starts playing games on 450mhz machines. I >can't quite figure why but CM seems to me to be stronger than most(any) progs >running on 200-266mhz machines. However when playing on 450mhz+ machines some >of the other software somehow seems to get more advantage on these machines than >CM. Which is surprising because i always thought CM would benefit more from the >speed than other progs. Perhaps speed is the way to go vs knowledge progs. > >P.S. > Does anyone know why no one cares about nimzo? :) Mr. Unruh, The more knowledge a program has the faster the processor must be to compensate. A simple algorithm would be fast but it would not be smart. We are looking at 400 to 800 gigabyte end and midgame tablebases in the next five years. We are going to need at least a one GHz to three Ghz processor and a massive amount of RAM to use all that info. Chinook, the world champion checker program already has access to 400 Gbyte eight man tablebases. I personally think that our society is getting too complicated. Life was simpler in the days of Nimzovitch. We are all addicted to technology.
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