Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Slashdot discovers the ChessBrain project.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:52:04 06/11/02

Go up one level in this thread


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


Actually, I qualified that a bit.  If you are talking about 24hr and beyond
'analysis' then a network chess machine could work well (by network I mean
a WAN, not a LAN).  A LAN should work for reasonable time controls.  A WAN
has more problems due to longer periods of congestion, outage or delay...



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.