Author: Duncan Roberts
Date: 11:42:24 12/25/03
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On December 25, 2003 at 13:41:02, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote: >On December 25, 2003 at 13:25:33, Peter Hegger wrote: > >>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. >> >> >>Hi, >>I've thought about a scenario where hostile aliens land and challenge earth to a >>chess match for the the very existence of the planet. If earth wins or draws we >>get to live and they'll quit bothering us. If we lose they'll blow the planet to >>smithereens. They'll be back in exactly 5 years to play the 10 game match. >>With all of mankind's resources thrown into their very survival, what kind of >>chess computer could we come up with for such a match? >>Regards, >>Peter > >This is not the first time I hear about this "Alien idea" with an >challenge-dependant invasion, although it's the first time I see it's about >chess. I must admit it's very appealing... for imaginative people, though. >I think I'd be better to use all computers on earth simultaneously (or >synchronized somehow) rather than getting an over-boosted single multi-processor I think nunn made an alien chess story. >computer. Then, maybe, adaptative techniques could be used to seek for answers; >who knows? > > Jaime
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