Author: Tony Werten
Date: 00:17:33 02/17/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 13:20:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>Just don't expect to see it play those 10 programs. >> >>Tony > >Exactly what would this be based on? Deep Thought dominated computer chess >events for 10 years. DB is _much_ stronger. What would lead you to think that >the 'best 10 programs in the world could beat it' now, when they couldn't do it >for 10 years running? DT lost 2 games that I know of against microcomputers >over a 10 year period. The micros lost plenty of games against DT. DT searched >about 2M nodes per second, while Deep Blue was 100X faster, not to mention >better. DB jr didn't search 200M . According to the artikel it searched 20M/s. My idea is that most computersprograms have improved more over the last 10 years. The hardware has definately improved more than 10X. But even besides that, also the programs itself have been improved. Another ( subjective ) argument: Have you seen DB jr play in a computerevent lately ? Tony
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