Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 12:53:26 12/22/99
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On December 22, 1999 at 13:11:35, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 22, 1999 at 10:20:03, Albert Silver wrote: >[snip] >>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. Small problem there. Who's gonna pay for an unsellable chip? >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. It's completely feasible that if some programmers and companies put together the right effort, that we have a completely new operating system with a superb PII compiler called BW (beating windows). For now BW stands for drinking a Bottle of Wine too much. I must see it happen first Dann. He says he planned to release in 2000, well i have no problems giving him a couple of years more, but must measure his cpu strength then to some parallel machines that everyone might be able to affort and other improvements done in 2002 to chessprograms. And where it's already questionable how well a chip would do at 0.35 micron if it would come out now, it's even more questionable what a chip of 0.18 means in 2004. Vincent.
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