IBM Supercomputer BlueGene Plays Chess Match

[Sean Evans]

http://www.thesportscampus.com/20100623 ... sult-25-05

I wonder which chess software program they used?

Perhaps, they will let GM's play against it ?!

Cordially,

Sean

[Mincho Georgiev]

They actually come up with a draw, which is awesome, I believe

[Edmund]

http://www.thesportscampus.com/20100623 ... sult-25-05

I wonder which chess software program they used?

http://players.chessdom.com/veselin-top ... lue-gene-p

The only problem for Topalov was that there is no software that runs on such hardware. For Dnevnik Topalov revealed that he has collected a team of computer professionals to modify a program to work on the Blue Gene.

There you go .. must have been one of the open source programs then.

[Martin Andersen]

It must be more than 4 times faster than Deep Blue.
In 1997 the fastest supercomputer had a performance of 1 TFlops,
according to top500.org.
Now in 2010 the number one is more than 1000 times faster.