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Subject: Re: chess programer

Author: blass uri

Date: 23:32:51 11/07/99

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On November 07, 1999 at 22:53:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Some would say so.  however I ran a long experiment with cray blitz vs
>genius 2, and gave genius an incredible time handicap...  the cray was
>running at about 120mhz, genius running on a 486/66 at 30:1 time odds,
>and it wasn't pretty.
>
>yes we had 'speed'.  But we also had other things besides speed.  Just that
>'mythology' said "you guys are no good if you take away your fast hardware."

I think that you had more than 30:1 hardware advantage relative to 486/66.
I remember that you do not use in crafty some knowledge that you used in cray
blitz because it is not convenient to do it so it is not fair to compare based
on nps.

In a contest between fast hardware and slow hardware I like the slow hardware
because if the fast hardware wins you always can say that the reason is
hardware.

This is the reason that I am for the commercials because if all the ideas are
known there is no chance for the commercial to compete against hsu because hsu
can also improve his software-hardware based on the same ideas.

I believe that a 386 is enough to win everyone in the world including kasparov
and deeper blue if people will write the right software.

I do not say that humans will be intelligent enough to do it but I believe that
there is a chance to compete against hsu by keeping the ideas as secret.

Uri



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