Draw!

An anonymous reader writes "Heise (publisher of the famous german computer magazine c't) started a most unusual CPU benchmark, today. A dual P4 Xeon 2400 and a dual AthlonMP 2000+ have to prove their abilities to ... play chess! The opponents are running two of the best chess AIs (Previews of Deep Fritz 7 and Shredder 6), so there are four different configurations. With each configuration about 55 matches (~24h) are played. As yet AMD/Fritz is leading, but the benchmark has just started. You can follow the duell online [Sorry, site is in german, but the graphics of the java-applet should be multi-lingual]. What's next? Who wouldn't like to see a Linux/Windows mine sweeper death match!"

Comments

Better watch out...

[mansa]

Is overclocking considered cheating? I hope the AMD doesn't get hot "under the collar"!

Re:Time is limited

[SirSlud]

better shmetter. the coolness factor (which doesnt seem that popular around slashdot in these sombre times) is off the chizz-arts!

Hey

[sinserve]

My MS-DOS 5/286 Commander Keen is challenging Taco's lesbian Sims running on a Linux
ThinkPad, to a side scrolling mud fight.

server problems

[Patrick13]

I hope neither of these machines is also hosting the web server, because it looks like it just got slashdotted.

:(

A better idea

[cybian]

I have a better idea. Put up two identical websites; one on AMD, one on Intel. Post the links on Slashdot and see which one stays up the longest.

Nostalgia for old pentium jokes

[sam_handelman]

Queen's Rook to Queen's Rook 3.999998456

tomshardware

[brer_rabbit]

Too bad this wasn't on Tom's Hardware instead. Regardless of the winner of the chess match, Tom's would determine the winner by highest frame rate in Battle Chess.

"Despite losing to the AMD, the Intel with the GeForce8 XP 512GB AGPxxx had a frame rate of 1882 FPS. Any chess player would appreciate the 4X anti-aliased graphics of the rook rock-monster pounding the opponent's pawns to pieces."

Re:tomshardware

[josh crawley]

"GeForce8 XP 512GB AGPxxx "......

SO! The industry finally found that adding the "porno transfer bus" along with standard AGP.

I guess in the future, autopr0n does survive ;-)

Re:tomshardware

[zerocool^]

• And they'd do

• it with 42 pages

• of explanation

• 
  and have only
  

Two words

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  per
  

• page.
• 
  
  ~Will

Linux/Windows Texas Cage Match

[rocjoe71]

Who wouldn't like to see a Linux/Windows mine sweeper death match!

They already tried to pit Windows versus Linux in a chess match:

1) the Windows machine refused to make its first move-- Microsoft executives explained later that they shouldn't have to make the first move as this could lead to a compromise of it's security system, thereby leaving its horsey vulnerable to worm attacks.

2) Microsoft later on changed the rules of the chess game citing their freedom to 'innovate' chess, creating new game pieces like 'bazooka' and 'platypus'. Unfortunately, they wouldn't tell anybody else how to use the new pieces or even document that there _were_ new pieces. Once it became apparent that the new pieces were there the Linux camp asked to have them removed but Microsoft refused on the basis that removing the pieces would irretrievably 'break' the game of chess.

Re:Linux/Windows Texas Cage Match

[brer_rabbit]

Additional chess pieces added by Microsoft include a thimble, race car, dog, shoe, cannon, top hat, and wheelbarrow....

Benchmarking via Chess

[CaptainCaveman_2002]

So... does this mean that Deep Blue has a better benchmark score than Gary Kasparov?

Fascinating...