jonathan@alberta.UUCP (Jonathan Schaeffer) (10/24/85)
Here are some of the details from the recent North American Computer
Chess Championships. N/S Stands for number of chess positions (nodes)
the program can analyze per second.
PROGRAM AUTHOR AFFILIATION HARDWARE N/S
_______ ______ ___________ ________ ___
Awit Tony Marsland University of Alberta Amdahl 5860 10
Bebe Tony Scherzer SYS-10 Inc., Chicago Custom Chess 20,000
Engine
Chaos Mike Alexander University of Michigan Amdahl 5860 70
Fred Swartz
Jack O'Keefe
Cray Blitz Robert Hyatt University of Southern Cray X-MP 100,000
Albert Gower Mississippi (4 CPUs)
Harry Nelson
Hitech Carl Ebeling Carnegie-Melon Special pur- 175,000
Hans Berliner pose hardware
Gordon Goetsch
Andy Palay
Murray Campbell
Larry Slomer
Intelligent Mark Taylor Intelligent Software Apple IIE 500
Software David Levy
Kevin O'Connell
Lachex Burton Wendroff Los Alamos Laboratory Cray X-MP 50,000
Ostrich Monty Newborn McGill University 8 Data General 1,200
computers
Phoenix Jonathan Schaeffer University of Alberta 4 VAX 11/780s 2,000
6 SUN workstations
Spoc Jacques Middlecoff SDI/Cypress Software IBM PC 300