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Subject: Re: Academics Are Missing an Obvious Idea

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:10:28 02/12/00

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On February 12, 2000 at 01:01:38, Vincent Vega wrote:

>No.  This is only the case if only chess algorithms were serial algorithms.  But
>that's not true.  How much will be the penalty - that's an open question.  I
>think it can be made reasonable.

Actually, alpha-beta is a very serial algorithm.

If people used minimax, then the Internet would _totally_ rock at playing
chess... but we don't...

>What I'm proposing is instead of spending $1,000,000 for a multi-processor
>machine to spend $10,000 on hardware (or use the school's hardware for free
>:-)but develop good algorithms and use the power of the Net.  Look at these
>stats from SETI@home:

So is your suggestion to use the Internet, or a LAN? A LAN with good, fast
connections might be pretty reasonable.

-Tom



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