My dad told me he read a newspaper article a while back on a guy who was creating some sort of chess program that utilized multiple personal computers, a la the SETI program. Anyone heard about this? Could you point me to some online sources about it (I’m sure the guy doing it has a website for it)? Thanks
I heard something like that.
Using a parallel architecture, a processor would be assigned to each of the 64 squares of the board…or is it assigned to each of the 32 pieces?..and thus each processor would map out the permutations of each possible move several moves deep.
Since Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov (sp?) there’s nowhere else to go, so why bother?
Research. Chess is a good problem to work on because it’s very hard, so any approach that works for chess-playing will work for other, more practical problems.