Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 16:19:55 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 19:13:02, walter irvin wrote: >i guess the only pc programs that could ever hope to be compared is crafty ie >smp and deep junior and perhaps diep .but those programs if run on equal >hardware would be as good .i also believe that if hyat had the same hardware he >would have done better .he makes crafty which is on par with the best pc >programs but not clearly better .it was the hardware that really made the thing >go ,im only commenting on the software aspect . The point that I was getting at, and failed to express clearly, is that DB had hardware that was not general-purpose. It had special chips that did chess-related stuff. Crafty, Junior, and Diep would not take advantage of these chips. (If they did use the chips, then the result would more or less be Deep Blue again, because the chips have most of DB's algorithms.) In other words, chess programs can not begin to touch DB's speed, and will not be able to for quite some time. -Tom
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