Zerker
Zerker,
an announced chess entity developed by James Testa, specified to run on a 32-bit Sun SPARCstation (12 mips), written in C, utilizing a 100 MB hash table and the Berkeley Chess Microprocessor, designed and developed by Testa and his advisor, Alvin M. Despain at University of California, Berkeley [2]. Zerker was registered to play the ACM 1990, and is mentioned in the tournament booklet with a speed of 7,000,000 moves per second [3] , roughly three times faster than Deep Thought at that time [4] . Unfortunately, a damage of its Sun computer [5] during shipment from California to Manhattan forced its withdrawal, and apparently, the project was later abandoned.
Etymology
Zerker is elated to or synonym [6] of Berzerker or Berserker, Norse warriors who are reported in the Old Norse literature to have fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the English word berserk. The name berserker arose from their reputed habit of wearing a kind of shirt or coat (Old Norse: serkr) [7].
See also
External Links
- Berserk from Wikipedia
- Berserker from Wikipedia
- Berserker (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song [8] [9], YouTube Video
References
- ↑ Bronze plates with raised images, Vendel era, found in Öland, Sweden. Possibly representing the Berserk right from Odin, Berserker from Wikipedia
- ↑ James Testa, Alvin M. Despain (1990). A CMOS VLSI chess microprocessor. University of California, Berkeley, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuit Conference
- ↑ The 21st Annual ACM North American Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
- ↑ Quick moves claim computer-chess title - Free Online Library, November 24, 1990
- ↑ Monty Newborn, Danny Kopec (1991). The 21st ACM North American Computer Chess Championship. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 34, No. 11
- ↑ Mega Man Star Force 2 - Wikipedia
- ↑ Berserker - Etymology from Wikipedia
- ↑ Kathy's Song - Lyrics
- ↑ Let there be light - Wikipedia
