Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 16:33:29 10/16/99
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On October 16, 1999 at 19:10:53, odell hall wrote: >On October 16, 1999 at 15:27:37, Jeroen Noomen wrote: > >>On October 16, 1999 at 14:22:49, odell hall wrote: >> >>> In the last Aegon tournament computers were running on pent200 machines, I >>>dare you to try and achieve the same result on pent 400 machines or higher. >> >>Does it make any difference? If you know how to play a computer it doesn't >>matter a lot how fast the machine is. In those games I avoided all tactics, >>playing rock solid stonewall chess. Computers do not understand these lines, >>and they still don't. Because none of the programmers has been able to >>solve the problem how a computer program should play against anti computer >>chess. Thus, playing on 200 MHz or 1000 MHz isn't making any difference. >> >>In this respect I completely agree with Bob Hyatt's view: If you know what >>computers are capable of (of more exact: If you know their weaknesses), than >>it is easy to hold on, even as a 2100 or 2200 player. >> >>Jeroen > > > > So I guess you would have no problems beating deepblue then since speed is >irrelevant? Well, DB has a factor of about 1000x in speed over any micro. I think he was talking about smaller speed jumps (maybe even 10x, since that only will get you a couple more ply). Not to mention that Deep Blue had a much larger evaluation than any micro, and a much different search tree. Jeremiah
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