World Record--Chess Brain Jan. 29th-30th (check my last reply)

[winr]

This is info from CJ (please read)

http://www.chessbrain.net/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=661




Hi, Chess Brain is going to play a ChessMaster on Friday January 30th 2004 in
Copenhagen, Denmark. The event will take place at 5:30 PM in Denmark.

The ChessBrain project will attempt to establish a new World Record for the largest number of machines used to play a single game against a single human opponent. Our attempt will be made in accordance to the guidelines established by the Guinness World Records Office in London.

Every registered member who's machine successfully participates
will be eligible to receive a certificate thanking them for their
help in establishing a new World Record!




World Record Attempt Information
This page contains important information regarding our World Record attempt. If you still have questions after reading this document send us an email at support@chessbrain.net
and we'll be glad to help!

http://www.chessbrain.net/wra.html



The ChessBrain project will attempt to establish a new World Record for the largest number of machines used to play a single game against a single human opponent. Our attempt will be made in accordance to the guidelines established by the Guinness World Records Office in London.

In order to participate in this official World Record attempt you must download and install the ChessBrain software on your computer. Your machine must also have an active connection to the Internet during the actual World Record attempt.

Once you install our software your machine will be able to automatically participate anonymously. If you want to get credit for your contributions, you must be a registered user. Registration is free and only requires that you enter four fields of information!

Every registered member who's machine successfully participates
will be eligible to receive a certificate thanking them for their
help in establishing a new World Record!

........................................NOTE..........Please Read..................................................
IMPORTANT: This site has been officially launched. If you've helped us test by registering on this site before January 22nd 2004, you must now create a new account!



To register, visit our membership signup/update site:

http://www.chessbrain.net/member/new_account.php


NOTE:
The "Username" field will be your ID, not the first part of your email as in Stage 2.


Our Team name is now "TeamAnandtech" without the qoutes. (Thanks to "idlorj")

Here is the new client download page.

http://www.chessbrain.net/downloads.html



Our World Record attempt will take place on Friday January 30th 2004 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event will take place at 5:30 PM in Denmark.
For example, 5:30 PM in Denmark is:

8:30 AM Los Angeles California USA
11:30 AM New York USA
4:30 PM London

Visit the site below to compare your local time to the time in Denmark:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=69

If possible, the safest way to ensure that your machine is actively contributing during the event is to leave it on and connected to the Internet over night on Thursday, January 29th!

We expect the event to last 4-5 hours.

You must make sure that your machine is connected to the Internet
during the scheduled time to participate in the World Record attempt!



Remember if you have any questions you can contact us at: support@chessbrain.net


In addition you can ask questions online at our community forum. You'll find our members warm, friendly and eager to help!

http://www.chessbrain.net/bbs


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Anyone that can run Chess Brain Jan 29th thru the 30th please do so.


winr

 

[theAnimal]

Well put!!

We can use all the help we can get! Lately we've been getting pummelled by Free-DC and US-Distributed.

And the top 20 DC teams will receive a special certificate different from that which everyone else will receive.

 

[winr]

ttt

 

[Slider76]

okay, updated and registered!

 

[theAnimal]

bump

 

[panhead49]

getting close!!.....

 

[Slatzman]

keeping it to the top...all team mates welcome to help set the world record

Slatz

 

[sciencewhiz]

back to the first page

 

[Mardeth]

T - 6 hours.

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Not sure if its written that way .

EDIT: They will have one more computer... Guess whos .

 

[D347h]

Is it now ? I can't connect to SuperNode!!

 

[BCinSC]

Neither can I. About par for this project - I complained many times in the past that my systems spend majority of time looking for SuperNode. Even www.chessbrain.net is down. Glad I busted a$$ to get clients setup.

 

[rocky4t]

Originally posted by: D347h
Is it now ? I can't connect to SuperNode!!

Things be dead....

I think the weird GM moves by the GM overheated chessbrain!

Bob / rockyfort (postig from a work account since I didn't have my regular password!)

 

[rocky4t]

Originally posted by: D347h
Is it now ? I can't connect to SuperNode!!

Things be dead....

I think the weird GM moves by the GM overheated chessbrain!

Bob / rockyfort (postig from a work account since I didn't have my regular password!)

 

[BCinSC]

This is PATHETIC!!!! I've got systems in 3 locations and none are connected.

 

[rocky4t]

Sing to the appropriate tune:

"All around the internet,
The thought they had a record.
Too many people wanted to join,
CRASH! goes the server."

FYI, on one graph I saw, around 2000 machines were trying to work together.

Bob / rockyfort

 

[Idlorj]

I have had a total of four jobs across ten machines since the record attempt started. The server must not be capable of handling the load.

 

[Mardeth]

Ive done some work too.

 

[BCinSC]

Where can we see how many nodes we've processed?

 

[winr]

This site is now being updated.
I will get stats up today.



http://mag.chessbrainstats.com/allusers.php?start=0&limit=100

 

[Mardeth]

Its quite fun to look at the match live and then see that my computer recieves a WU .

 

[BCinSC]

So what was the end result?

 

[rockyfort]

Originally posted by: BCinSC
So what was the end result?

A quote from their page, with my notes in parentheses:

Our World Record attempt is now complete. We had serious technical difficulties early in the game, but managed to resolve them! (My note: the GM played some weird moves and things crashed in case you didn't see)

The result of the game was a draw. (Interesting that the GM sac'ed a few pieces and a Rook to create the draw. Perhaps he thought he saw something? Perhaps he thought Chessbrain wouldn't? In any case, I had to leave and work with my chess kids after move 32, and we decided that the best outcome was a draw. Agreed to after move 34.)

ChessBrain's new official record now stands at 2070 machines from over 50 different countries. We'll prepare a full report in the next few hours.

Thanks to everyone who helped to make this possible.

rockyfort / Bob