Author: blass uri
Date: 14:01:28 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... I think that before 1997 the main improvements were hardware improvement because the best commercial program in 1994-1997 was genius and there was no significant improvement in genius. I think that in the last 2 years half of the improvement is hardware and half of the improvement is software. I guess that if you give the best commercial program of today(probably Hiarcs7.32) the hardware of 2 years ago(PII300 the hardware of many participants in WMCCC) and play it in 40 moves/2 hours against the best program of 2 years ago on pIII550 the result will be close to equal. Uri
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