Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:40:08 09/18/99
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On September 18, 1999 at 11:42:38, blass uri wrote: >On September 18, 1999 at 10:01:04, Masciulli Gianluigi wrote: > >>I was reading an article by prof. Giovanni Righini (university of Milan) titled >>"L'eredita' di Deep blue" on the italian chess monthly "Scacco!" >> >>I almost falled from my chair when i red: >>".... >>E' da anni che il software scacchistico non migliora piu' >>..." >> >>(trad. No step forward in chess software in the last years) >> >>I want say that Righini is one of best italian expert in CC, and he in the >>article esplain that the progress in the last years is mainly by hardware. >>So I don't want to contest anything to prof. Righini but im just puzled in >>this may be true or not. > >It is not truth that there is no step forward in chess software in the last >years. > >There are always new and better programs. > >Genius3 was the best program some years ago and Genius did no step or almost no >step forward but other programmers did steps forwards and now their programs are >clearly better relative to the past. > >Junior5 is clearly better than Junior4.6 and the next version of Junior is going >to be clearly better than Junior5 > >The same is for Hiarcs7.32 relative to Hiarcs6. > >Uri but the improvements are definitely _driven_ by hardware advances. Go run the latest hiarcs on your old 386 against Genius 2 and see what happens...
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