Author: KarinsDad
Date: 08:55:32 07/03/99
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On July 03, 1999 at 07:54:02, walter irvin wrote: > i think it would be hard for computer to win because people use computers , to >help them now .they are really only playing a much more extensive version of >advanced chess at correspondence now .i can see this correspondence champion now >with about 9 or 10 computers all lined up .him feeding different variations to >see which one pans out all the way up to computer #10 . no regular computer is >going to stack up against that. Agreed. I was actually thinking of a scenario where the program is playing the correspondence player and the player does not have the advantage of using a computer. However, if he did have the options of using computers, then you could still accomplish this within a reasonable time frame if you dedicated yourself to doing it. Using DB Junior type of hardware, 512 processors, and having a program designed for correspondence chess could be accomplished in 5 years. It would take another 2 years or so to play the game. And with 512 processors running 24 hours a day at 20 million positions per second per processor, you could be looking at 1.2e13 positions each week. That is some heavy duty number crunching, maybe 20 ply or so. Add to that all 6 piece tablebases. Ouch! And, of course, the game would last for 2 to 3 years, so you could continuously upgrade both the hardware and software for the program; assuming that this is allowed. And it should be allowed according to some members here since the human correspondence player would be constantly improving; it would not matter that it was during the middle of a game. KarinsDad :)
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