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Distributed Chess Computing Project

Posted by Hemos on from the yet-another-distributed-project dept.

jcarley writes "Just found an interesting project that is looking to capitalise on the power of unused computing cycles to develop a strong chess playing computer. Given the power in single and dual CPU chess programmes these days, if they can find a good way to efficiently parallel the anaysis this could be interesting. "

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  1. How does it work? by GGardner · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This page has lots of paragraphs about distributed computing this, and xmlrpc that, and pretty animated gifs showing binary ones and zeros zipping from one computer to the other, but NOTHING about the actual algorithms or chess going on.

    What is it actually doing? A complete tree-search for all the legal chess moves? That's a pretty big tree! Searching for conclusions to well-known games? Trying to crack into a Norwegian librarian's database?