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Its gotten so bad (good) that cell phones are now playing at GM levels. Kind of depressing, but inevitable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_chess_m
by oldstrangers 15y ago
Its gotten so bad (good) that cell phones are now playing at GM levels. Kind of depressing, but inevitable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_chess_matches#Pocket_Fritz_4_.282009.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_chess_matches#Po...
- sylvinus 15y agoYes, it's astounding (if true) that Pocket Fritz only searches 20k nodes per second, compared to Deep Blue's 200M. There must be some serious positional intelligence involved there!
- TylerE 15y agoYour average GM is also not Gary Kasparov. The difference between a typical GM and one of the handful of elites is pretty astounding.
- starwed 15y agoFor a graphical grasp of this concept, take a bell curve, and then plot only the top 0.1% of the bell curve. That's the distribution of abilities among people who are any good at all at chess, and it is no longer anything close to a bell curve.
- gcp 15y agoSimple improvements in the tree search algorithms to reduce the effective branching factor are enough. Those have exponential effects. Improving the evaluation function is "merely" a constant improvement.