Chess - 2070 CPUs vs 1 GM

Posted by timothy on Monday February 2, 2004 @07:37PM 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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still no bobby fischer by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-02 19:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

first post though!
Re:I'd love to see a Beowolf cluster of those by SamNmaX · 2004-02-02 20:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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?
I dunno? What are the chance that SCO will send them a bill for $1399 x 2070?