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Now there are two attractive ways for chess enthusiasts to use those spare CPU cycles one that is trying to create the world's largest chess computer and the other that I have mentioned before and is the one I'm currently supporting is using chess in research on artificial intelligence, both are worthy of your support.

The Worlds Largest Chess Computer?
What if we could link computers throughout the Internet to form a massive chess computer? A global Chess Brain... How strong could such a program become?

The ChessBrain project is dedicated to creating the worlds largest chess computer by utilizing the combined processing power of interconnected machines throughout the Internet.

The Distributed Chess Project is a distributed computing effort in the field of artificial intelligence. The goal is the creation of chess-playing artificial neural networks using distributed evolutionary algorithms for the training of the networks. The training is performed using a client software to be installed on the computers of people who are inclined to participate in the project. A server provides data specifying a certain computational task and accepts the results once the client is finished with the task. Then a new task will start based on new specifications.

The client comes with an attractive screen saver displaying historical chess games. The games from Bobby Fischer's book 'My 60 Memorable Games' are included.