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Subject: Re: DB just another program

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 15:12:46 01/27/00

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On January 27, 2000 at 17:27:04, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 27, 2000 at 17:13:34, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>[snip]
>>Right on Tim,
>>
>>This is especially true when the 1 and 2 ply searches may be full-width and the
>>30 and 31 ply searches are always selective searches.  We know that DB was
>>thousands of times faster than any chess computers in the average home and it
>>only managed to hold its' own against Kasparov.  If the rating goes up linearly
>>then DB should have had a rating of elo 3000+++


Chess computers in the average home are 1/4 the speed of computers that Dann
Corbit uses.  Also, don't forget that the databases used in DB were orders of
magnitude bigger than what us poor mortals use.

Someday there will be a "breakthrough" and a computer will be invented that
"thinks like a man".

Tim Frohlick



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