Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: What do programmers think about a chess algorithm??

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:24:40 12/10/02

Go up one level in this thread


On December 10, 2002 at 18:05:15, Ingo Lindam wrote:

>On December 10, 2002 at 17:56:49, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On December 10, 2002 at 17:51:40, Ingo Lindam wrote:
>>
>>>On December 10, 2002 at 17:30:47, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 10, 2002 at 13:42:36, Bernardo Wesler wrote:
>>>>[snip]
>>>>>THE ALGORITHM. A MATHEMATICAL FORMULA THAT , FOR EXAMPLE, ASSURE YOU THAT IF YOU
>>>>>DO THE FIRST MOVE YOU ALWAYS WIN.
>>>>>I MEAN TO THINK ABOUT DISCOVERING A CHESS ALGORITHM IS AN UTHOPY?
>>>>
>>>>Provably impossible on current hardware and software systems.
>>>>Maybe in 100 years the game will be formally solved.  Not in the near futre.
>>>
>>>provably impossible on current hardware...?
>>>are you sure?
>>
>>I think he meant probably and not provably.
>
>unfortunately I meant provably and is absolutely sure that there isn't any doubt
>about this!
>
>so I guess the answer/solution/proof on the question: How many prime numbers
>exist?

The number of primes is uncountable.  Euclid proved it quite a while ago.

>is also 'provably not solvable' on current and all future hardware...
>because storage will ever be provable to small to store all existing prime
>numbers...

We don't need to store them to count them.

>people, I guess it's time now to invent mathematics! ;-)

Apparently.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.