Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:08:02 11/07/00
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On November 07, 2000 at 11:19:19, woehrle wrote: >I have a question to the programmers of chess programs > >I think all of you know SETI@home, a scientific experiment, that use home- >computers to look for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI = Search for >Extraterrestrial Intelligence). At the moment more than 4 million home-pc are >connected. A gigantic performance. Question: it is possible to play a Game >"World against Kramnik". by combining 50.000 - 500.000 home-pc.? I think, that >krammik would have no chance?! 1)I think kramnik has good chances in this game. I even doubt if being 10000000000000000000 times faster is going to help to get more than a draw against kramnik. In order to win kramnik you need to cause him to do errors and playing perfect may be not enough. 2)It is theoretically possible to combine 50000-500000 home pc but there should be clear rules how to use them. I have no idea how to use the alpha beta with 50000-500000 home pc but it is possible to get 3 plies deeper without using the alpha beta for parallel search. All you need to do is to give the 50000-500000 computers to calculate all the possible positions that are 3 plies deeper than the root position and calculate a score for the root position that will be calculated from this data. Every computer operatoer will have a fixed number and the computer will calculate the position that is determined by the number. After doing all this calculation the operators will send all the numbers to one computer operator by email and his(her) computer is going to read all the 50000-500000 emails and calculate a move for the root position by this information. This idea may be productive for a correspondence game but I doubt if it can be productive for tournament time control game. possible problems: 1)I do not know the time that computers need to read 50000-500000 emails. 2)There may be connection problem of few operators and in this case they have to use telephone to give the information to other operators. There may be more problems that I did not consider. Uri
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