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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