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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