[Beowulf] OT: the ongoing computer chess championship in China

[Peter St. John]

The World Computer Chess Championship is onging in China (part of the World
Mind Sports thing). The leaders, about half-way through , are a 40 core
cluster from the US and a "8 x 4GHz" machine from the UK, with 4.5 out of 5.
There are 10 participants, it's a nine-round round robin. Cluster Toga, also
a cluster, is notable for drawing both of the leaders.

>From http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4935

 Rybka USA Cluster, 40 cores 3.5 4 5.0 4.50  Hiarcs GBR Intel Skulltrail, 8
x 4Ghz 3.5 4 3.0 2.50  Sjeng BEL Intel Core 2, 4 x 2.8Ghz 2.5 4 4.0
2.00  Junior
ISR Intel Dunnington, 12 x 2.67Ghz 2.5 3 3.0 2.50  The Baron NLD AMD Opteron
270, 4 x 2Ghz 2.0 4 7.0 1.75  Jonny GER Cluster, 16 cores 1.0 4 12.0
2.50  Cluster
Toga GER 24 cores 1.0 3 9.5 3.50  Shredder GER Intel Core 2, 8 x 3.16Ghz 1.0
3 8.0 2.25  Falcon ISR Intel Core 2, 2 x 2.1Ghz 1.0 3 6.0 0.00  Mobile
Chess CHN
Nokia 6120c 0.0 4 9.0 0.00
Peter
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