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

Can anyone explain...

[krogoth]

What exactly does speed/power have to do with this?

Do they switch processors and programs as well?

[arunkv]

Right now the games seem to AMD/Shredder vs. Intel/Fritz. Is there going to be a round with AMD/Fritz vs. Intel/Shredder? Any why not have plain AMD/Fritz vs. Intel/Fritz?