Author: Angrim
Date: 16:01:25 11/16/03
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On November 15, 2003 at 22:09:51, Mike Byrne wrote: >On November 15, 2003 at 22:02:42, stuart taylor wrote: > >>I believe there are supercomputers that are much much faster than was the IBM >>which beat Kasparov with Deeper Blue. >>If so, what are we waiting for? >>S.Taylor > >Even much faster computers will not solve chess. The possibilies of chess games >exceeds the number of atoms in the universe and by the time it could even be >theoretically solved, the Sun would have burned out and there will no humans >living on earth. So one can safely say , chess will never be solved (white to >move and win) by man using computers. Safely? As a thought experiment, determine the amount of cpu needed to solve the position after 1. g4 e5 2. f4 useing the same methods that you used to estimate how hard the chess starting position is to solve. While I don't know whether it actually is possible to solve chess in the next 50 years, I do know that I have never seen a convincing argument as to why it should be impossible. Angrim
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