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

Author: Mark Young

Date: 13:02:36 09/18/99

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On September 18, 1999 at 15:40:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

Yes you are right, since Hiarcs 7.32 could not run on a 386.:) But I understand
your point.



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