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Subject: Re: Internet distributed computing

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:19:07 05/01/00

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On May 01, 2000 at 17:52:27, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>Hey, I had this crazy idea a while ago but thought it was of the wall. If there
>is a way to make use of lots of cpu time without much data exchange, this would
>be great --- of course alpha-beta and the like can't be used over the internet
>... but maybe something else ?
>
>Georg


Alpha/beta will work ok over the internet, assuming we aren't talking about
anything shorter than 1 day per move.  But this is _still_ an exponential
problem.  Distributed computing isn't going to 'solve' chess.



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