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Subject: Re: FPGAs playing chess--an expert opinion

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 03:29:22 12/18/99

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On December 17, 1999 at 21:50:32, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
<cut useless, uninformed tirade about DB's eval function>
>Apart from this discussion great discussion about FPGA. You're however
>comparing with deep blue. I'm only interested in how much faster my program
>can get if i for example put my evaluation to FPGA.

I think that putting your eval() on a good FPGA wouldn't be too hard. The main
problem is that every time you want to run eval(), you have to send the FPGA the
board position and grab the result. So that's a bottleneck. I think you could
probably get a net speedup, but it's not like your eval() will run infinitely
fast.

-Tom

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