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

Author: Greg Lindahl

Date: 16:40:41 12/20/99

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On December 20, 1999 at 19:25:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>He is talking about the hash table.  If you punt on that, you take a huge hit
>in performance.  The only way to make it up is to do dozens of chess processors
>like DB used.  This is assuming that the chess processor is really doing a true
>alpha/beta search, and not just pieces of this (like evaluation).

Again, you're making the assumption that you have to put the hash table on the
chip or not use it at all. That isn't necessary; you could put just the
evaluation function onto the chip, and do the hash lookup on the main processor.
In order for that to be interesting, the evaluation function has to be a large %
of total time, which is true for some existing computer algorithms (but not
Crafty.)



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