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Subject: Re: Zugzwang on Cray-T3E

Author: Ralph E. Carter

Date: 01:36:23 12/05/98

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As you probably know, it means "obligation to move". Pretty close!

On December 05, 1998 at 04:24:14, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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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