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[ Odin and Berzerk [1] 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.

See also#

• Berkeley Chess Microprocessor

External Links#

• Berserk from Wikipedia
• Berserker from Wikipedia
• Berserker (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy’s Song [8] [9], YouTube Video

References#

1. ↑ Bronze plates with raised images, Vendel era, found in Öland, Sweden. Possibly representing the Berserk right from Odin, Berserker from Wikipedia
2. ↑ James Testa, Alvin M. Despain (1990). A CMOS VLSI chess microprocessor. University of California, Berkeley, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuit Conference
3. ↑ The 21st Annual ACM North American Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
4. ↑ Quick moves claim computer-chess title - Free Online Library, November 24, 1990
5. ↑ Monty Newborn, Danny Kopec (1991). The 21st ACM North American Computer Chess Championship. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 34, No. 11
6. ↑ Mega Man Star Force 2 - Wikipedia
7. ↑ Berserker - Etymology from Wikipedia
8. ↑ Kathy’s Song - Lyrics
9. ↑ Let there be light - Wikipedia

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