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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:11:35 12/22/99

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On December 22, 1999 at 10:20:03, Albert Silver wrote:
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>The question begs asking so I'll ask it: If you were to try to build the next
>super duper ultra chess machine, and provided costs were not the biggest issue,
>how would you go about it? How would you pick up from Deep Blue? I realize this
>is completely hypothetical, and that any ideas you had would still need to bear
>testing, but the question remains: what would you do?

I would use Hsu's new shrunk chips.  I would put one hundred times as many on
the very latest RS/6000 with one hundred times as much memory.  I would also
have a completed 6 piece endgame tablebase.  I would have analyzed an opening
book of 60 million positions at 200 million nodes each position.

This machine would not be defeated by anyone or anything until a more powerful
machine came along (and that would take a very long time).

By the way, this machine is completely feasible today.





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