Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 12:44:56 03/04/00
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On March 04, 2000 at 08:12:07, David Blackman wrote: >The actual computer part of a typical new PC today costs a couple of hundred >dollars for the CPU, i haven't checked RAM lately but i guess 64MB might be >nearly another hundred dollars, and modern chess programs can make use of huge >hard discs for game databases and endgame tablebases, so that's another couple >of hundred dollars. And by the time you go that far, you need a fairly hefty >power supply, no more 2 X AAA batteries. A competitive dedicated chess computer >today would cost nearly as much as a PC. For it to be competitive with a PC, it would obviously cost as much as a PC. But it would not take very much effort to make an extremely good dedicated chess computer. There are some terrific embedded processors these days. They don't cost very much, and neither do a few megabytes of memory. For $150, you should be able to make a chess computer that's the equivalent of a Pentium/100 with 2MB RAM. Such a device would be very, very strong. -Tom
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