K6-2-450 takes on #2 rated chess player, and its WINNING. (from chiptech.com
Remember last year, when Big Blue (IBM) shaped up against the world's greatest chess champion...and barely won? Well, The K6-2 is currently battling Viswanathan Anand, the #2 chess guy, in the same game. But where IBM took a supercomputer (and almost failed), AMD and Kryotech has taken a PC anyone could buy. And is winning. Specifically, the K6-2 slammed Anand -- by the way, it's not the same Anand -- 4.5 to 1.5, in yesterday's series of games! Today, it's a tie at 0.5 to 0.5, but with the AMD chip winning by three games and only one more game to go, it would take a mathematical imbecile not to notice that it would be extremely difficult for Vishy to pull through with an amazing comeback. Anyway, I thought this newsworthy because it's an event potentially more groundbreaking than last year's win against Kasperov. In that series, the computer was constantly being upgraded during the tournament, and the win was way too close. Here, it's a decisive win. BTW, the software used is a commercially available program called Rebel. rebel.nl The page explaining the landmark acheivement is right here. rebel.nl And at this page rebel.nl are benchmarks clearly explaining why they went with the K6-2. Interestingly enough, the AMD chip is far faster than any corresponding Intel chip. In fact, the K6-2-333 was capable of processing the complex information in Rebel faster than a PII-400!
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