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Chess - 2070 CPUs vs 1 GM

Posted by timothy on from the hitting-all-the-bases dept.

jvarsoke writes "ChessBrain.net broke the world's record for 'largest number of distributed computers used to play a single game' by holding a chess match between Danish GM Peter Heine Nielsen and the equivalent of SETI@home (which similarly, has some people looking for a Mate). 2070 CPU's from 56 countries aided Black by running the chess program Beowulf, including a couple of University clusters. Their supernode ran Linux, and MySQL. The game was relayed by FICS. Results can be viewed here(1) and here(2)."

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  1. I'd love to see a Beowolf cluster of those by odeee · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd love to see a Beowolf cluster of those... Oh damn... it is =:-)

    1. Re:I'd love to see a Beowolf cluster of those by brad-d · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh yeah, that'd be right.

      Finally I thought I could get a 5+ funny and here you go and steal my joke. I mean, what are the chances of somebody else thinking of this exact same joke on Slashdot? 1 in 3?

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  2. Well that's great.... by filtur · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure Chess it great, but can it find me a date?

  3. May I suggest... by kamapuaa · · Score: 4, Funny
    which similarly, has some people looking for a Mate

    May I suggest, that neither the SETI@Home, nor Chessbrain.net, is the best place where one can find a Mate.

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  4. 2070 CPUs by Duncan3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    1 CPU to beat the GM.
    +2069 CPU's so it could get on Slashdot.

    There are very few humans on the planet that can beat even one computer. That's been true for how many years now? Neither beating a GM or 2070 CPU's is impressive anymore.

    Someone go built a robot that can shovel snow, now THAT would be useful.

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