Author: William Kerr
Date: 10:38:50 12/25/03
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On December 25, 2003 at 13:12:10, Bob Durrett wrote: > >Suppose you were much richer than Bill Gates and wanted to make the biggest, >meanest, most fantastic chess computer. Suppose you wanted a dedicated chess >computer so big that it topped the list of the World's biggest computers. What >would it look like? > >The problem IBM had with Deep Blue was that they didn't want to spend BIG money >on the computer. But you could be different! Be extravagant! > >Special purpose computers are optimized for a very limited purpose, by >definition. For example, if it were desired to create a special purpose >computer to model the Earth's atmosphere, globally, and if it were desired that >the model be "high fidelity" and capable of modelling repid events such as >tornatos and lightning, then the structure and operation of that computer and >it's software would be optimized for that purpose and would never be used for >any other purpose. It, I suspect, would not look very much like a >general-purpose computer. > >What if you were **rich** and wanted to make a really huge chess research >machine that would blow everybody's imagination? > >This is a call for brilliant ideas! [If there is no response, you know what >that'll mean. : ) ] > >Bob D. I would build the fastest computer instead of the biggest computer. This fastest computer would would be so fast that it could calculate the answer to Life the Universt and Everything in 6 seconds instead of seven and a half million years that it took Deep Thought computer. I would then load Peter Jennings original "Microchess" Program (modified to go to deeper depths of course)and pit it against the best commercial / freeware chess programs. Of course these programs would all be checkmated in under 17 moves. Just my thoughts. Your milage may vary. Bill
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