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Subject: Re: GM Anand vs Fritz 5

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:53:22 05/26/98

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On May 26, 1998 at 21:25:13, Mark Young wrote:

>Anand vs Fritz in Frankfurt
>
>A spectacular event will be held on June 20, 1998 at 8 p.m. in the City
>Hall of Frankfurt-Zeilsheim. A special multiprocessor verseion of
>Fritz5, runing on a Siemens Primergy, will take on the world's number
>two player in a rapid chess match. The match comes at the end of the
>strongest tournament ever staged, the "Siemens Nixdorf Giants", with
>Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand, Vladimir Kramnik and Anatoly Karpov (June
>17 to 19). The Siemens Nixdorf Primergy 460 is commercially available
>server with a dual Pentium II board with two 333 Mhz CPUs. Each has 256
>Mbyte of RAM, which is useful, since at the expected speed Fritz will
>fill 200 to 300 MB of transposition tables between its moves. There will
>be live coverage of all events by the Lost Boys
>(www.lostcity.nl/chess/ccs/frankfurt.html), with daily wrap-ups and
>games on this web site (www.chessbase.com).
>
>From www.chessbase.com/news.htm


would be interesting to see who/how/what they've done with the parallel
search, since none of 'em have been "practicing" parallel search.  I
have
an idea.  :)




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