[Liverpool] [Fwd: [Lbw] Computer Go beats 8-dan professional]

[Richard Smedley]

At the July meeting we briefly discussed both Deep
Blue, and Go-playing computers, so this may be of
interest:


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From: John Costello
To: lbw at x31.com
Subject: [Lbw] Computer Go beats 8-dan professional
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 19:04:17 -0700 (PDT)

Since there will be Go at this year's LBW, I consider this on-topic.

<http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/08/1243244>

Interesting highlights:  It took 800 cores at a performance level of 15 
teraflops, compared to the 11.38 gigaflops of Deep Blue.

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