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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."
I wonder which will be the most costly squares... the "King" squares or the "Queen" squares :-D. The whole rows of "Pawn" squares will be selling cheap.
...where they converted part of the island into a GTA level, but 9/11 came along and John Carpenter threatened to sue. I guess there's always Broadway.
Any idea which style of architecture is the castle going to be built in?
Wanted : A Signature.
It's not supposed to fly. It's supposed to play chess. RTA.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
If the Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles can kick Shredder's ass between pizza binges, surely a Hydra should have no problem with it at all.
You may come for our chess cities, but our beheadings will make you stay.
The cluster resides in the server room of Pal Group of companies in Abu Dhabi. Author Chrilly Donninger will access it from the tournament hall using an Internet connection.
I know what the script kiddies will be doing this week...
-Adam
McDonald's is counting _burgers_ not people. They had better be unique.
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
Anyone know how GNU/Chess stacks up in comparison to these?
Let's not forget that one can hate his government, but love his country.
I think /. needs a chess icon; I can't be the only one who saw the headline and thought two machines were playing each other in a Tetris tournament.
It is commonly believed that when "the evil Shredder attacks, these turtle boys won't cut him no slack!"
Teenage Mutant Ninja Hydra
Teenage Mutant Ninja Hydra
Heroes in a cluster
Linux Power!
...if my experience in Tetris City is any guide. Getting a permit to build was a real bitch with the zoning changing so quickly. And they won't even consider a subdivision. Against the rules to change the shapes to fit.
There is now a Checker City being built in Berwin Illinois that will be 12 million cubic miles and cost 17 trillion billion gazillion dollars!
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
I thought it was Nermal.
2.6 billion making a chess board? Hmm, I wonder who's paying for that then.
I know, it's all you SUV drivers.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
Can they move the buildings?
If the playground will be like real chess board, with buildings like figures, can the buildings move like playing real chess?
Let those aliens know we can play chess; with buildings.
Things in a rear mirror might be behind you
And how the heck did Burnadette do that thing with her arms?
Best Buy can have you arrested
imagine a beowulf cluster of hydra clusters.
Amen.
And you thought Euro Disney was a flop...
I'm placing my bet now that Hydra will win, become world champion, then disappear for 10 years, before being deported from Japan.