Re: brains in bahrain

From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 13:04:27 MDT


On 2002.10.13, spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
> spike66 wrote:
> >
> >Fritz7 has stomped Kramnik in game 5! {8^D
>
> There we have it friends. Commercial grade
> software running on an ordinary workstation class
> computer, even when playing the world's best,
> can occasionally kick carbon-based butt. Now
> any prole can have world class chess competition
> for a few thousand bucks. spike
>

I'm surprised with all the goofy distributed computing
projects that nobody has created a distributed chess
playing engine ... see if it can shut human players out.

Imagine a distributed cluster of 10,000 desktop class
machines averaging 1 GHz each behind a chess computer.

-- Dossy

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Dossy Shiobara                       mail: dossy@panoptic.com 
Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/ 
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)


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