Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 21:01:07 07/21/03
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On July 21, 2003 at 23:29:11, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 21, 2003 at 23:14:52, Derek Paquette wrote: > >>Ok here is a hypothetical situation for you all. >>I love debating chess, and so here is something to debate. >> >>There was talk a few years ago of a program actually being able to play for the >>world championship. While this isn't happening, let us pretend for the sake of >>this debate that it is true. >> >>How much money would it take to build a machine and the salary of programmers to >>win a world championship match outright, >>so a point where it is embarasing for the Grandmasters >> >>no draws, all wins, no loses >>Is this possible right now? How much money would it cost > >Way, way more than the reward in monetary terms. > >>The saying is, "money can't buy everything" >>only most things, is this possible? >> >>In my own opinion yes. >>No investment by any one or two people could possibly afford this, >>However if a corporation were to invest millions, they could topple the best in >>the world, thoroughly, >> >>my own opinion of course > >Possible? Maybe. Hsu/Campbell could shrink and improve the chips by a couple >orders of magnitude. They could use 1 million of them instead of 480. They >could use a cluster of top of the line RS/6000 machines and improve/debug the >programs and hardware. > >Probably a cost of 100 million dollars. > >There is absolutely no way that's going to happen. > >Of course, 20 years from now your desktop PC will be able to do the same thing. >So why not just wait a bit. Don't need to spend all that money! Not even one cent more. I'd bet any of the top programs could win a championship on current hardware, simply because of the human fatigue factor. The programs we have now would wear-down any of the top players in a 12 game match, no problem. Matt
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