Dorks have created a perfect Checkers playing computer named Chinook. You can apparently play against it here, though at the time of this writing, its server is slammed into submission.
” The proof required analyzing 500 billion billion checkers positions — 5 x 1020 — a computational process that began in 1989 and has been running on hundreds of processors almost continuously since.”
…Well I’ll be damned.
(thx salon.com)
As a response to this inq article, I wrote this to Nick Farrell
“To Sun,
I think an easy way to get some positive talk with your name attach to it into the heads of gamers would be to donate (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) some servers to games which are not yet MMO, like battlefield2 and battlefield 1942. I still play those a bit and we could use some non-suck 64 player servers.
I know for a fact that one of them opteron servers will do nicely. I’m sure this opportunity exists for other games.
It’s just something to think about being as I, and a surprisingly large amount of us engineers, play online games. I used to know a bunch of AMD people who gamed. I’d assume its the same accross the board with us engi-dorks.
Please and Thank You,
Ihatethetv.com”