Author: James Robertson
Date: 08:24:05 07/16/99
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On July 15, 1999 at 22:57:41, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >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. In Checkers only 1/2 of the squares can have pieces, and there are a lot of other things (no ep, etc.) that make them smaller. I personnally think it will be a lot longer than 5 years before there are 8-man chess tablebases. :) James > >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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