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Subject: Re: Zugzwang on Cray-T3E

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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