Author: James Robertson
Date: 23:29:07 07/16/99
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On July 16, 1999 at 14:23:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 16, 1999 at 11:24:05, James Robertson wrote: > >>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. > > >8 piece checker endings are old news. Check out the Chinook project at the >University of Alberta. They are beyond this already... Umm.... I said _chess_, not checkers. :) James
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