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Building A Homemade Chess Supercomputer

Posted by simoniker on from the chess-or-gta-dilemma dept.

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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  1. LOUD SUCKING SOUND EMANATING FROM BUFFALO, NY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

  2. Farook by shoeless_jim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Farook is the ultimate challenge. Chess is for the girly-man in the land of Farook. Stewart Lamie is your god.

  3. Re:Tic Tac Toe? by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    +1 Funny
    +1 Nostalgia

    Well done!

  4. Re:Only Chess? by sn00ker · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Would you like to play a game?

    --
    "God, root, what is difference?" - Pitr, userfriendly
  5. huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    chess? the question is can it run linux?

  6. Re:And those are two very BIG reasons, too... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    3. u sux

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  8. Re:P3 faster then P4 at same clock speed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mentioning cars on slashdot? You do realize this is a website for geeks, right?

  9. Re:P3 faster then P4 at same clock speed? by Worminater · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of size of germans... I'm half German, half Polish (ox-moron I know) and I will say my Kilbasi lives up to expectations;-) *winkhintwink*