KryoTech Inc, the West Columbia, South Carolina-based chip cooling specialist, says that a PC running a thermally accelerated K6 processor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc recently defeated the world’s second-highest rated grand master in an eight game chess match. The PC, with a 333MHz AMD K6 boosted up to 450MHz through Kryotech’s Deep Freeze technology, defeated Viswanathan Vishy Anand by a score of 5 to 3 at a match last week held on the island of Ischia, off the coast of Naples in Italy. The PC was running the chess program Rebel, developed by Schroder BV of the Netherlands. Deep Freeze cools the K6 down to -40 degrees Celsisus. IBM Corp’s SP/2-based Deep Blue has so far won all the chess honors in the computer world, and although IBM has plans for a Junior Deep Blue using a single RS/6000, the KryoTech/AMD combination cuts the price of such systems dramatically. KryoTech says it plans to sell limited edition Deep Freeze tournament configurations to chess enthusiasts for a recommended list price of $2,995.
