Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 01:40:57 12/05/98
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Oh, absolutely. "Zug" is move (as in chess), way, path, course, etc. However, I've never heard the word "zugzwang" outside of chess... -Tom On December 05, 1998 at 04:36:23, Ralph E. Carter wrote: >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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