the new chess
this story reminds me of mathew broderick watching the tic tac toe games on the big screen in wargames.
Dubbed Grid Wars II, the contest held at the ClusterWorld conference in San Jose, California, last month was like a software version of television’s Robot Wars and Battle Bots. In each battle, programs fought to gain control of processing power in a huge parallel computer.Source...
Onlookers watched the algorithms on a screen that displayed each match. Each processor was represented by a square in a giant grid and each program by a different colour. To start off, programs fought it out in small groups. The winners of each group contest were then paired off in a 32-program knock-out contest.
When this was whittled down to the final two the atmosphere was nail-biting
13 July 2003, 23:47 ::
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