Chess - 2070 CPUs vs 1 GM

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @03:37AM 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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I'd love to see a Beowolf cluster of those (Score:4, Funny)

by odeee ( 741339 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @03:38AM (#8167155)

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

Well that's great.... (Score:4, Funny)

by filtur ( 724994 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @03:43AM (#8167177) Homepage

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

May I suggest... (Score:4, Funny)

by kamapuaa ( 555446 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @03:46AM (#8167190) Homepage

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.

Re:I'd love to see a Beowolf cluster of those (Score:5, Funny)

by brad-d ( 30038 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @04:02AM (#8167248)

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?

Re:Bullshit... (Score:3, Funny)

by ObviousGuy ( 578567 ) writes: <ObviousGuy@hotmail.com> on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @04:03AM (#8167249) Homepage Journal

For example, there have only been 1026 nanoseconds since the Big Bang. There are thought to be only 1075 atoms in the entire universe.

The universe must be much smaller than I am prepared to comprehend.

2070 CPUs? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @04:08AM (#8167263)

Pfft. Even now computers need to cheat at games.

I'd like to see a Beowulf cluster of Chess Grand Masters take on Big Blue.

What's the big deal? (Score:0, Funny)

by gbulmash ( 688770 ) writes: <semi_famous@yahoNETBSDo.com minus bsd> on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @04:32AM (#8167318) Homepage Journal

The General Manager of some Danish company plays a big chess computer. It would be more interesting if it was a Grand Master... oh.
Damn multiple-use acronyms.

Re:Well that's great.... (Score:2, Funny)

by arvindn ( 542080 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @04:55AM (#8167362) Homepage Journal

Sure Chess it great, but can it find me a date?
No, but you can find a mate.

fur hats (Score:3, Funny)

by Doc Ruby ( 173196 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @05:17AM (#8167423) Homepage Journal

Vodka-cooled Russians have traditionally dominated the field.

Re:Bullshit... (Score:2, Funny)

by ag0ny ( 59629 ) writes: <javi@@@lavandeira...net> on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @05:23AM (#8167442) Homepage

There are thought to be only 1075 atoms in the entire universe.

They must be very big.

2070 CPUs (Score:5, Funny)

by Duncan3 ( 10537 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @05:53AM (#8167513) Homepage

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.

Re:Bullshit... (Score:3, Funny)

by Rolo Tomasi ( 538414 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @06:15AM (#8167553) Homepage Journal

They spend countless hours analyzing the games of the person that they will be playing tomorrow.
Yeah, if "countless" is by your definition "less than 24".

Re:Bullshit... (Score:2, Funny)

by martinX ( 672498 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @06:15AM (#8167557)

If you are going to pick nits about a type, at least do it properly. 1026 nanoseconds != 1.026 ms. Perhaps you were thinking of microseconds? ;)

If you are going to pick nits about a typo, then spell typo properly :-)

Re:I'd love to see a Beowolf cluster of those (Score:2, Funny)

by frobisch ( 630854 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @06:16AM (#8167560)

Finally I thought I could get a 5+ funny and here you go ...
no go in chess topic please

Re:Understanding vs. Processing (Score:3, Funny)

by flewp ( 458359 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @06:22AM (#8167579)

You can also identify the computer that beat you and take a bat to it.

The day a computer can pick out a person in a group and take a bat to them, that is the day we must fear.

Re:Draw game against 2070 CPUs? (Score:1, Funny)

by heiberg ( 34548 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @06:38AM (#8167612) Homepage

Those fancy chess playing computers are going to take over the world some day, yessirree!

I for one welcome our new chess playing overlords!

Re:What's the big deal? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @06:39AM (#8167613)

Genetically Modified?

That'd be cool...

Re:Draw game against 2070 CPUs? (Score:2, Funny)

by alwsn ( 593349 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @08:13AM (#8167831)

<INDIANAJONES>
Grammar Nazis... I hate these guys.
</INDIANAJONES>

Must be too early to read slashdot... (Score:2, Funny)

by Mawen ( 317927 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @09:01AM (#8167946) Journal

> and the equivalent of SETI@home (which similarly, has some people looking for a Mate).

I had always wondered why people ran SETI@home; now I know: they have given up on mating fellow humans (Is their self esteem that low? Has obesity gotten that bad in America?) and are looking to find love with aliens, once we decrypt the personal ads they have been sending us via interstellar radio.

(I think ambiguous appositives like these are a good reason to switch to Lojban [lojban.org])

In other news... (Score:2, Funny)

by Waffle Iron ( 339739 ) writes: on Tuesday February 03, 2004 @10:38AM (#8168543)

...Waffle Iron still hasn't taken the time to learn chess strategy; gets soundly beaten once again by a cluster of one Z80 running the chess cartridge on a 1992 vintage Gameboy.

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I'd love to see a Beowolf cluster of those (Score:4, Funny)

Well that's great.... (Score:4, Funny)

May I suggest... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:I'd love to see a Beowolf cluster of those (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Bullshit... (Score:3, Funny)

2070 CPUs? (Score:1, Funny)

What's the big deal? (Score:0, Funny)

Re:Well that's great.... (Score:2, Funny)

fur hats (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Bullshit... (Score:2, Funny)

2070 CPUs (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Bullshit... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Bullshit... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:I'd love to see a Beowolf cluster of those (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Understanding vs. Processing (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Draw game against 2070 CPUs? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What's the big deal? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Draw game against 2070 CPUs? (Score:2, Funny)

Must be too early to read slashdot... (Score:2, Funny)

In other news... (Score:2, Funny)

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