Chess Programs Test Computers
From the inquirer"OUR FRIENDS at c't magazine have a battle going on at their website right now.
The site has a dual Athlon 2GHz machine playing 55 matches of chess against a dual Xeon 2.4GHz box.
And readers can watch as Sanders and Grove originated boxes sweat it out over the Internet."
At the time of this posting the AMD machine was leading 2 games to none.
I remember in the early days of micro computers the 6502 chip used in Apple and Commodore computers was the programmers chip of choice for chess playing since the critical factor in these programs is how efficiently they execute branch instructions. The 6502 was fantastic, There were other micros running Z80 and 8080 chips running at 4mhz (how things have changed) that didn't stand a chance against the 1 and 2mhz 6502 based machines.
For current standings and live action here is the
link.
