Chess

[der Mouse]

> I know it's like comparing apples and oranges, but Deep Blue sans
> specialist chess hardware was rated at 11.38 Gigaflops

...which is pretty meaningless, since (a) much of the speed came from
the custom silicon (it's a bit like saying "without the fancy graphics
hardware my gaming system cranks 15 fps") and (b) chess code normally
doesn't use all that much floating point anyway.

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