Author: woehrle
Date: 13:54:07 11/07/00
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On November 07, 2000 at 15:08:02, Uri Blass wrote: >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 don't agree.The present fastest computer of the world "ASCI-White" is 1000 times faster - 12,3 teraflop- than the computer Deep Blue", which won the match against Kasparov 1997. 2474165 home computers of the SETI project rendered a performance of 26.42 tera-flops in the last 24 h see:setiathome.ssd.berkeley. I think that this performance is able to beat Kramnik in a competition.
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