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Subject: Re: from "Scacco": No steps forward in Computer Chess in the Last years !?

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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