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Subject: Re: Computer Chess Went The Wrong Way...

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 07:00:07 01/08/03

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On January 08, 2003 at 07:46:08, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>>>http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kunegis/hack/chess/
>>
>>Wrong calcualtions. They say in that link that in 2002 we can investigate 3
>>million positions per minute.
>
>I knew that. doesnt matter at all. this is not a serious calculation because
>Moores law is not realistic (physical reasons).

You'd have said the same thing 50 years ago about computers based on valves.

Quantum computing might be possible. At the very least - when you get to the end
of what you can do with 1 processor, you can start going parallel (this is, of
course, already being done - just not cheaply yet).

Luddite!  :)

-g



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