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Submission + - Rybka solves the King's Gambit chess opening (chessbase.com)

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smarq2

on Monday April 02, 2012 @11:09AM

smarq2 writes: "Chessbase reports that chess programmer IM Vasik Rajlich has solved the King's Gambit chess opening with technical means. 3000 processor cores, running for over four months, exhaustively analysed all lines that follow after 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 and came to some extraordinary conclusions."

Comment A Harder Challenge (Score 0, Offtopic) 896

by smarq2 on Monday October 04, 2004 @02:32PM (#10431568) Attached to: SpaceShipOne Captures the X Prize

Here's a harder challenge (that's also more down to earth) than the X prize.

It sounds so easy, but no one has done it yet.

http://arimaa.com/

Scott

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