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Subject: Re: Any chess programs going on Playstation 3

Author: Walter Faxon

Date: 17:13:03 01/13/06

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On January 13, 2006 at 13:54:32, Majd Al-Ansari wrote:

>On January 12, 2006 at 20:20:07, Geo Disher wrote:
>
>>I am sure someone has asked this before but is anyone planning to put their
>>chess program on the new Playstation 3.  They are talking 200 gigaflops which
>>would be interesting to see.  Again sorry if this has been asked but I could not
>>find the link
>
>
>Theoretically it is possible to make this graphic based hardware work as a chess
>engine.  The problem is that you would require specific code and software to do
>that.  I don't think that there is enough money to be made to make such a
>project feasible.  I read somewhere where someone was doing this to some VGA
>cards.  I also read somewhere were ATI had some special beta software (driver)
>code that allows your ATI video cards to do amazing things.


IIRC, Bob Hyatt mentioned in a posting here that someone had ported his Cray
Blitz program (not Crafty) to a video card and competed with it on ICC some time
ago.  The post did not have much more detail than that but if the guy could be
found...

-Walter



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