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It occurs to me that you can be thinking whilst it is the opponent's turn i.e. you can give some nodes the job of looking at likely next moves and others for determining counters to that and so on.

PS don't forget to ask your contributors to open a tab for each core they have if their browser is going to use a separate OS thread for each

PPS Google Chrome's NACL is, longer term, an interesting direction perhaps?

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Yes, most chess programs do this, although it is forbidden in some chess computer tournaments with stricter rules (but we'd never qualify in those anyway :)

As for asking people to open multiple tabs, that may be an additional instruction for D-Day if they want to max out their CPUs. But we figured 1 CPU maxed out while browsing a website would already be enough :)

Chrome's NaCl is definitely an interesting direction, but we'll investigate webGL first which seems to be more promising (see Folding@home).

Thanks for the feedback!

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