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Subject: Re: Distributed Computing in chess?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:44:32 02/09/01

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On February 09, 2001 at 15:40:28, chip piller wrote:

>I posted a similar question recently, noting that there is a lot of interest in
>fast cpu's and SMP machines to get improved performance for a chess program.
>
>I am working on (planning stage now) a distributed chess project.  There is a
>project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dchess but we have no code yet.
>
>Our approach will be a distributed chess analysis program with low bandwidth
>requirements.
>Chip
                                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

alpha/beta is going to make this requirement _very_ difficult to address.
The search, by definition, is very high-bandwidth.

That is the stumbling block any distributed algorithm has to overcome.  The
more you reduce the bandwidth between nodes, the _larger_ the tree becomes.



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