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Subject: Re: Chess and Xbox 360

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 16:16:34 11/09/05

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On November 09, 2005 at 15:12:50, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>I was reading (though not verified) that the Xbox 360 is going to have 3 cores
>running at 3.2ghz using a PPC architecture, with network capabilities.
>
>Wouldn't this make a great system for running a chess engine?
>At $350 it seems really cheap for that much processing power.
>
>Comments are appreciated.
>
>Josh

It would be an excellent machine for chess, imo. If Johan goes over to smp or
other companies/programs, like Deep Fritz 9 in the future, etc., get contracts
with Microsoft.

Terry



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