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Hydra vs. Shredder
azaris writes "The powerful computer chess engine Hydra, running on a sixteen-way Linux cluster, is taking on the many times world champion engine Shredder in a match between the two chess super computers in Abu Dhabi, according to ChessBase.com. So far, Hydra is leading by two clear victories." S!: ChessBase also points to the announcement of a "64,000 square meter International Chess City" in Dubai, planned to cost US $2.6 billion, which "will feature 32 buildings designed to mirror the image of a traditional black and white game board."
People are starving, a major conflict is going on in the middle east, global warming might very well be leading to the end of the American way of life (mass consumption without pragmatic bounds), and 2.6 billion dollars is being sunk into an, "International Chess City?" I guess you have to do something with all that oil money. Doesn't the UAE have the highest per-capita GDP in the world?
Not so well, but if you want to talk about Go, (and of course you do) GnuGo is one of the better Go programs around.
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