Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 09:33:05 06/10/02
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On June 10, 2002 at 06:14:11, Martin Andersen wrote: >On June 10, 2002 at 01:47:45, Allen Lake wrote: > >>There's a discussion going on at Slashdot >>(http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/09/157257) concerning the ChessBrain >>project (http://www.chessbrain.net/about.html), which is an attempt to create a >>distributed chess computing system, sort of like SETI@Home. >> >>Like all Slashdot discussions, it gets strange and off-topic (way off-topic!!), >>but it is interesting to see some of the mistaken impressions going around about >>the current state of the chess programming art. > >Is chessbrain succesful at distributed chess ? >I remember some comments by Hyatt that you cannot >speed up the calculation of moves by connecting many >computers over the internet. At least not significately. > >Martin Maybe speed it not really necessary. There are many chess fanatics who love correspondence chess. Speed is not important there, unless measured in days rather than minutes. A "chess engine" consisting of software distributed over thousands of computers all over the world, perhaps could play really strong correspondence chess! Bob D.
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