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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. 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, roughly three times faster than Deep Thought at that time. Unfortunately, a damage of its Sun computer during shipment from California to Manhattan forced its withdrawal, and apparently, the project was later abandoned.

=Etymology= Zerker is elated to or synonym 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).

=See also=
 * Berkeley Chess Microprocessor

=External Links=
 * Berserk from Wikipedia
 * Berserker from Wikipedia
 * Berserker (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song, YouTube Video

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