Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Do you believe a future computer will calculate 2^168 nodes per second?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 06:06:14 10/03/01

Go up one level in this thread


On October 03, 2001 at 04:30:43, Adam Oellermann wrote:

>On October 02, 2001 at 14:56:25, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On October 02, 2001 at 01:17:27, Eran wrote:
>>
>>>On October 02, 2001 at 00:27:30, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 01, 2001 at 21:33:02, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>[snip]
>>>>>>If it will do in the future, it will be a solid chess computer, right? ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>Solid, spherical, multi-layer whatever.
>>>>>You aren't going to get electrons or photons to move faster than light.
>>>>>
>>>>>Look at the MHz you imply with the above figure and then calculate the trace
>>>>>size that would be needed to prevent breaking the speed of light.
>>>>>
>>>>>9cm of wire takes a full nanosecond to transverse.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm not saying it is impossible.  Just that it is not possible with any physical
>>>>>process we know of now.
>>>>
>>>>Put simply:  NOT IN OUR LIFETIME.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>:)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Slate
>>>
>>>I hope to see, feel and play it even once before I die. What a pity if I will
>>>never do it. Heck, y'know that life is not fair. Next generation of our children
>>>and grandchildren will be luckier than we are today! They could buy very
>>>powerful heldhand computer chess (around 4000 Elo Rating!) containing atomic
>>>chips or "superstring" chips or whatever for $1.99 to $5.99 at CVS stores in the
>>>year 2100!!. What a bright future for them &%$#@%*!@%($%@@W%^#$ How lucky they
>>>will be; I am beginning to envy them really :-(((
>>>
>>>Eran
>>
>>I'm not sure about you.  But I plan to be alive in 2100.  :)
>>
>
>I hope to be alive, but I don't particularly expect to be at the top of my game
>chesswise...
>
>- Ada,

LOL!

Perhaps we should be working on a "Viagra" for chess then??




Slate



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.