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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."
And Chessmaster 2000 kicked my arse on a 486!
I've got no chance.
-Joe
If we're all god's children, what's so special about Jesus? - Jimmy Carr
No thanks, I still get my ass kicked when I play chess on my pocket PC yet alone on a chess super computer. Im lucky I can even win in Othello :(
The ultimate network admin tool needs HELP!
I'm working my way up to chess. I'm starting by becoming a tic tac toe master.
- Joe
As this computer was to be focussed on chess, video performance was not important.
Hardcore Slashdot Games readers cringe...We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
A Pentium 4 will be slower at chess than a Pentium 3 of an equivalent clock speed
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Just imagine the chess performances of a 8086 at 1GHz. And you get a space heater too, for those cold chess-playing winter nights
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
You should obviously change the game to take advantage of the hardware. Imagine it! Three dimensional chess where each piece has weapons, or magical attacks, deformable terrain, and lots of special effects to make use of the latest video cards! I can't wait!
Screw Tic-Tac-Toe, I'm gonna go play Global Thermonuclear War.
Sincerely,
W.O.P.R.
anything i tell you will cloud your opinion.
From America in 2003, where you damn well better DIY or DW (do without). Then, write it up and sell it as a big 'hint'...
he could get a Mac and play chess.app on his "supercomputer."
Dear Grammar Nazi,
In your third paragraph you misspelled "sentence" as "sentance" the second time you used it.
Sincerely,
Spelling Nazi
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
*shit*
There you Go!
can we promote you to /. editor?
the computer beats YOU! ...wait a sec...
It seems you could make about 3 dual Athlon ~2GHz systems for the price of one 2x2.8 Xeon and that the cluster would outperform. Or maybe build, like, a 20-processor VIA C3 system that would perform the same and use less power.
it is running linux, you clod.
RTFA and LATFP (look at the fucking pictures).
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
Damn, those Pentium 4 Xeons are slow!
No trees were harmed in your post, but twenty-seven clueless echelon operators were terribly inconvenienced.
Free as in mason.
I am a go player. When I play chess I raise the pieces high in the air then slam them down on whatever grid intersection I feel like.
I am not popular at chess clubs.
graspee
Wow, you're right! We should all clearly be driving Porsches! Anyone who isn't is clearly irrational!
(I know you were joking)
Jeremy
Regarding your sig. I checked out /. japan a while ago but I thought I'd take another look. My limited Japanese got me nowhere-babelfish got me further, but still wouldn't translate a whole page of comments.
What struck me, as I read a freeBSD post, was the complete lack of trolls and crapflooders. Everything was like "Score: 3 it is interesting". The lowest was 0 for all the AC posts.
In a way it was both refreshing and disappointing. I had been looking forward to babelfish trying to cope with goatse and "is dying" posts...
Yes, I know this is offtopic. (sarcasm) Forgive me, oh fascist moderators. (/sarcasm)
graspee