Chess

[Austin Pass]

On 15 Apr 2008, at 18:34, scheefj at netscape.net wrote:
>
> Thoughts on chess games? Would a Deep Blue emulator/simulator be  
> vintage? The original computer is more than ten years old. How fast  
> would it be on a modern PC?
>
> Somewhere I should have a DOS version of Chess Master.
>
> I only play using really lousy chess games because I lose too soon  
> in the "good" ones.
>
> Jim

Whilst a modern PC would match the 30-node RS/6000 cluster for GFlops,  
Deep Blue featured some specialist custom hardware - 480 "special"  
VLSI chips if Wikipedia is to be believed.

-Austin.