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Subject: Re: DB just another program

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:42:22 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 19:34:26, walter irvin wrote:
>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 ???????

Do you know what the Deep Blue plies mean?  It is not the same thing as a ply in
some other program.



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