There was a huge discussion of this on the computer chess forum. As it turns out, software and hardware are somewhat intertwined. You would not write a chess the same way if all you had was a 6502 processor. Most of the early chess software didn't have the hardware to support hash tables, so the comparison is not entirely fair as both software and hardware have a kind of symbiotic relationship.
But Rybka 3, when it came out, was something like 100 ELO or more stronger than the second best CURRENT program. And world class programs of 10 years ago are almost pathetic by today's standards, even running on modern hardware. I think Larry Kauman estimated that in the past decade, software and hardware was about equally responsible for the increase of playing strength. That means if you could bring Rybka 10 years into the past, even running on that hardware you would have a program several hundred ELO stronger and nothing else would even be in the same league. I wish I could give you a more specific estimate but I can't. - Don On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:24 PM, steve uurtamo <uurt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But here is someting interesting: In the case of computer > > chess it has been estimated that the progress in software > > has been roughly the same as the progress in hardware. > > Modern chess programs are truly amazing, and not just > > a result of faster hardware. There is no reason to think > > that this won't be true of computer go. > > This makes me wonder... so how slow (and RAM starved) > of a computer could you use and still get grandmaster level > chess play? > > In other words, how far back could we go in time if we had > today's software and expect a computer to play chess as > well as humans? > > s. > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ >
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