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Just 16 cores short of having one per chessboard square, like the pioneering parallel chess machine Hitech...

https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/HiTech?f=print

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.126...

As Minsky has said, parallelism isn't worth a damn thing if you don't have better heuristics to prune the search space.

If you have a million processors to play chess with, and your search tree still has a branching factor of thirty, you're only looking two moves ahead.

The human mind is amazing because our pattern-matching-based search heuristics are great.

Our pattern-matching-based search heuristics are great because the human mind is amazing.

At least that's how I see it ;)

I'm glad this has been done :) I thought of the same thing when I first heard of Tilera's TILE64.

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