Author: Peter Berger
Date: 04:12:24 11/03/02
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On November 03, 2002 at 05:20:31, Omid David wrote: > >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...! Unless the starting position is say a forced mate in 35 - then it will be solved sooner or later.
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