15 Apr
2008
15 Apr
'08
10:56 a.m.
On 15 Apr 2008, at 18:34, scheefj at netscape.net wrote:
Thoughts on chess games? Would a Deep Blue emulator/simulator be
vintage? The original computer is more than ten years old. How fast
would it be on a modern PC?
Somewhere I should have a DOS version of Chess Master.
I only play using really lousy chess games because I lose too soon
in the "good" ones.
Jim
Whilst a modern PC would match the 30-node RS/6000 cluster for GFlops,
Deep Blue featured some specialist custom hardware - 480 "special"
VLSI chips if Wikipedia is to be believed.
-Austin.