Building A Homemade Chess Supercomputer

nado writes "There's a new article on Chessbase.com which has GM John Nunn showing you his chess-orientated PC upgrade to a double Xeon system, with some Fritz benchmarks." Elsewhere in the article, John Nunn discusses the unique computer needs for chess computation: "One of the problems with currently available processors is that they are not particularly well suited to the integer calculations used for chess. A Pentium 4 will be slower at chess than a Pentium 3 of an equivalent clock speed."

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Re:P3 faster then P4 at same clock speed?

[Zemran]

Total and complete bullshit!

Japanese sports cars a small and have little engines because Japanese men are small and have little engines. European sports cars... well, have you seen the size of those Germans? They need bigger cars with large engines and lots of torque to shift that amount of lard down the autobahn.