Work stealing in MIT’s reported 1995 computer chess bid

A post recounts MIT borrowing Sandia National Laboratories’ roughly 1,824-node Paragon supercomputer for the 1995 World Computer Chess Championship. It describes Cilk’s work-stealing approach: idle cores take older tasks from busy ones to handle uneven chess calculations without a central scheduler. The post says MIT nevertheless lost to Fritz 3, which ran on a Pentium 90.