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Clenaghan Finbar wrote:
> 
> I am a student at Oxford University and I am about to begin a project > on parallel chess. My supervisor has suggested I take an existing
> sequential chess program and try to parallelise it.


	I suggest you to look at newsgroup rec.games.chess.computer (or
rec.game.chess.computer, I don't remember) and post your questions here.
There are many well known chess programmers that will help you.

I don't know a lot about parallel chess but I think the search
algorithm  of GnuChess would be difficult to convert from sequential to
parallel.
And if you have never made a chess program yourself then your task is
really hard! So it's true GnuChess source code can help you to
understand how to do a chess program.

For a parallel search algorithm I think MTDF can help you, as his author
says it can be easily converted from sequential to parallel. 
The WWW adress is :
US page =>
	theory.lcs.mit.edu/~plaat/mtdf.html
Netherlands page (same but faster from Europe) =>
	www.cs.vu.nl/~aske/mtdf.html

						
						Good luck! 
						Jacques Ruiz.