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Subject: Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved.

Author: Omid David

Date: 02:20:31 11/03/02


The game of chess can never ever be solved:

There are about 10^128 potential chess positions. If we start searching with a
supercomputer with the speed of 100 million nodes per second (10^8 NPS), it will
take about 10^113 years to process all possible positions! What is the speed you
can imagine in the next 100 years? Let's say 100 million million nodes per
second (10^14 NPS); then it will take "only" 10^107 years to solve the game of
chess!

And even if we process all 10^128 possible positions, we will have one little
problem: where to store the data?! Even if we manage to store a position in an
atom, there won't be enough atoms for that, since there are "only" 10^80 atoms
in the entire universe...!

Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. David Hanley 12:50:06 11/04/02
Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Fernando Villegas 05:24:31 11/04/02
- Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Omid David 10:48:53 11/04/02
Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Daniel Clausen 01:31:00 11/04/02
Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. stuart taylor 16:59:50 11/03/02
- Omid, When you come back, see this if you didn't yet. stuart taylor 17:03:17 11/06/02
Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Roger D Davis 10:08:49 11/03/02
Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Russell Reagan 09:36:28 11/03/02
- about search space, state space, and moore's law martin fierz 13:04:38 11/03/02
  - Re: about search space, state space, and moore's law Dave Gomboc 20:57:28 11/06/02
  - Re: about search space, state space, and moore's law Jesper Antonsson 15:36:18 11/03/02
    - Re: about search space, state space, and moore's law Russell Reagan 19:00:20 11/03/02
      - Re: about search space, state space, and moore's law martin fierz 19:58:11 11/03/02
        
        Re: about search space, state space, and moore's law Dan Andersson 10:08:13 11/04/02
        
        Re: about search space, state space, and moore's law martin fierz 13:07:15 11/04/02
        
        Re: about search space, state space, and moore's law Dan Andersson 14:12:18 11/04/02
        
        Re: about search space, state space, and moore's law Uri Blass 13:49:13 11/04/02
- Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Omid David 10:17:46 11/03/02
  - Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Ingo Lindam 13:37:22 11/03/02
    - Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Omid David 13:40:54 11/03/02
      - Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Ingo Lindam 13:53:53 11/03/02
        
        Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Omid David 10:46:52 11/04/02
  - Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Russell Reagan 11:05:17 11/03/02
Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Louis Fagliano 09:16:10 11/03/02
Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Bob Durrett 07:56:06 11/03/02
Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. andrew tanner 05:31:46 11/03/02
Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Uri Blass 04:37:26 11/03/02
- Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Dan Andersson 08:17:41 11/03/02
- Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Joachim Rang 05:27:42 11/03/02
  - Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Omid David 05:41:28 11/03/02
    - Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Uri Blass 06:00:59 11/03/02
      - Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Omid David 06:16:39 11/03/02
        
        Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Sune Fischer 06:30:59 11/03/02
        
        Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Omid David 07:05:25 11/03/02
        
        Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Ingo Lindam 07:26:42 11/03/02
        
        Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Dan Andersson 08:59:47 11/03/02
        
        Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Robert Hyatt 15:00:38 11/04/02
        
        Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Sune Fischer 07:25:38 11/03/02
        
        Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Omid David 09:01:08 11/03/02
        
        Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Sune Fischer 09:17:36 11/03/02
Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Peter Berger 04:12:24 11/03/02
- Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Omid David 05:17:03 11/03/02
  - Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Peter Berger 14:13:10 11/03/02
Re: The game of chess can never ever be solved. Sune Fischer 03:56:46 11/03/02
Re: ?? The game of chess can never ever be solved. GuyHaworth 03:00:14 11/03/02
- Re: ?? The game of chess can never ever be solved. Omid David 03:37:50 11/03/02
  - Imagine the game of chess as a very large, dark and beautiful forrest... Ingo Lindam 04:11:39 11/03/02

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