How about a Distributed Chess Engine?

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From: Chip Piller
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:01

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I am in the planning stage of a distributed chess project.  The goal of this
is to increase the performance of a chess program by running a chess client
program on more than one networked computers.  The increased performance is
to be achieved by distributing the work so that more positions can be
searched in the same amount of time.  The number of computers could be
potentially quite large, 10's, 100's, 1000's, ...  I realize that there are
several design problems, such as tree pruning and hash to be worked out.

Has anyone tried to do a distributed chess program?  Any suggestions would
be appreciated, please be specific.  I plan to work on a linux version at
first but hopefully later (and with help) there can be multi platform
clients.  I also plan for this to be an open source/GPL project which is why
I am posting this here.

Chip

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