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Subject: Re: Zugzwang on Cray-T3E

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 01:24:14 12/05/98

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Although somebody should point out to the translator people that Zugzwang does
not mean "course obligation".

-Tom

On December 04, 1998 at 21:32:35, Ralph E. Carter wrote:

>On December 04, 1998 at 21:11:44, Scott Shepherd wrote:
>
>>Since January 1998 we have ported Zugzwang to the Cray T3E machines at the HLRZ
>>Jülich. The parallelization of Zugzwang performs equally well on this machine.
>>The current speedups are approximately 250 on 512 processors under tournament
>>conditions.
>>
>>Currently Zugzwang is playing the Lippstadt Grandmaster tournament competiting
>>in a field of 11 humans (grandmasters and international masters). You may find
>>Zugzwang's games.   http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/chess/chesshome/zzc_t3e.html
>>
>>
>>Has anyone heard of this I would Like to read more but dont read German :o)
>>
>>                                              Scott
>There is a pretty good automated translator at
>http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?
>You can cut and paste into it. Or give it the URL of a whole web page.
>For example, here is what it did with the above URL:
>
>                         Rainer Feldmann, University of
>                      Paderborn, Computer Science, 33102
>                                  Paderborn
>
>
>                                COURSE
>                           OBLIGATION
>
>                          Chess on Massively
>                             parallel system
>
>                       Course obligation on Cray TÉ
>
>                       Since January 1998 we have ported
>                       course obligation to the Cray TÉ of
>                       machines RK the HLRZ Juelich. The
>                       parallelization OF course obligation by
>                       form equally wave on this machine.
>                       The current speedups AR
>                       approximately 250 on 512 processors
>                       more under tournament conditions.
>
>                       Currently course obligation is playing
>                       the Lippstadt Grandmaster tournament
>                       competiting in a field OF 11 humans
>                       (grandmasters and internationally
>                       masters). You May find to Zugzwang's
>                       games below and the ranking here.
>
>Not too bad.



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