Re: [gnugo-devel] Couple of questions for the Gnu Go team

[Terry McIntyre]

Playing Chess well enough to beat a grandmaster required considerable
efforts by IBM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue - 30 RS6000
processors, and 480 special-purpose VLSI chess-engine chips.

Go may require as much or more computing power to reach shodan levels.

I'm curious, has anyone ever set a supercomputer to the task of playing 
Go?

Terry McIntyre -- UNIX for hire
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On Oct 27, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Hans Ongchua wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
>  Really enjoy Gnu Go. I have just three questions:
>         •       What operating system is used for developing Gnu Go?
> 	• 	What kind of hardware would be needed to boost the development and 
> strength of Gnu Go? (Don't go too wild with this answer but assume 
> that you could get more goodies than the Hydra project.)
> 	• 	Besides hardware, what other resources would be needed to take Gnu 
> Go to shodan and/or to win the Ing Foundation bounty?
>  I'm neither wealthy nor a philantrophist. It's just that I might be 
> able to place a bug in the ear of some folks who might have an 
> interest in this kind of a project. That's two BIG "mights" but I 
> wouldn't mind trying.
>
>  Best Regards,
>  - Hans (aka ChiyoDad)
>
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