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Subject: Re: DB just another program

Author: walter irvin

Date: 16:34:26 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 19:19:55, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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

the logs i seen on DB depth search did not show it getting that deep .even if
the eval had lots of knowledge a search of 2 or 3 ply deeper by a pc would do it
??????????? fritz 6 gets deep maybe a 1 ghz kyrotec athlon would put them closer
than people think ???????



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