Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 00:20:13 12/07/99
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On December 06, 1999 at 16:06:24, leonid wrote:
>On December 06, 1999 at 12:42:03, Pete R. wrote:
>
>>IBM announced plans to develop a machine 1000 times more powerful than Deep
>>Blue, to be used to model protein folding. Now the comparison to DB is a bit
>>artificial since DB used custom chess chips. This new one ("Blue Gene") will
>>have a million+ processors and perform a quadrillion operations per second. The
>>question is, if IBM made a similar investment in a new chess monster, how much
>>stronger than DB2 would it be in chess terms? A thousand fold increase would be
>>what, an additional 6 ply search in the same time? What ply depth would it
>>typically get to in 3 minutes? 20+? If it had a million of Hsu's latest
>>processors it might even be more than a 1000 fold increase. Just musing. I
>>think IBM could easily build a machine that would retain the World Champ title
>>against humans indefinitely.
>
>Could never find how much from each ply game is forced to see, when it make
>search by "brute force" and without any fantasy "extensions". After my own
>experience, it is around 21% from the ply (no hash tables). In general, I will
>say, game is forced to see 6 moves from each ply that contain 30 moves. 1000
>fold increase - represent around 4 plies.
DB did a _TON_ of extensions.
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