Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 15:59:03 01/22/00
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On January 22, 2000 at 17:55:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Please send a check for $500.00 to: >I will send you one copy of a program that will run on your PC, and will >say "hello from Deep Blue for the PeeCee" when you start it up. >The point being that "Deep Blue for a PC would _not_ be Deep Blue, and >I don't think _anybody_ would be fooled by the idea that it is... This is stupid and you know it. It is 100% possible to make Deep Blue for Windows 98, it would just be a few thousand times slower than the "official" DB. OF COURSE you will not confuse anybody into thinking that their $800 Gateway Family PC is as good as IBM's Supercomputer, but that is not the point at all. The point is that DB beat Kasparov, so it's incredibly cool to run the DB algorithms on your PC. If FHH sold a PC version of DB, he will have thousands of customers who aren't even sure how to play chess, but still think DB is great. >According to reported numbers, "DB" has 100K lines of C. Which would need >serious porting since there is no SP-type hardware to use. And then it would So there's a lot of SP-ish assembly in it, or what? I don't see what the big deal is. >need an eval written that takes about 40,000 clocks for the long path thru it. Actually, FHH should already have a fast version of the evaluation function in software. Otherwise, how did he design it? How did he tune it? Presumably he would want his thing to play as well/fast as possible vs. GM Benjamin... -Tom
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