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by rpearl 3800 days ago
Deep Blue was only innovative in that it was specialized hardware for this type of search. The algorithms it used were well-established, and as there was no way to play it as a piece of hardware without great expense, there wasn't really a reason to keep it around.

Chess engines you can run today, for free, on your own laptop, are far and away better than Deep Blue (and any human), and I believe still don't reach Deep Blue's raw speed.
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karussell 3800 days ago
I'm curious: is there a Chess league for software? And if yes, how far are they already better (in ELOs) than humans if run on commodity server hardware?
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tetraodonpuffer 3800 days ago
I think that would be

https://icga.leidenuniv.nl/

I can't find the claimed ELO for Jonny (current champ) but Junior (previous champ) is listed at 3200+, Magnus' top rating, the highest ELO rating ever, is 2882 for reference

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bluecalm 3800 days ago
This is not a serious competiton. For serious stuff, see for example:

1)http://tcec.chessdom.com/

2)http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

There is a lot of politics in chess programming but the bottom line is that Komodo is currently the strongest program followed by Stockfish (which is distributed under GPL).

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