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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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