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Subject: Re: Slashdot discovers the ChessBrain project.

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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