Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 17:25:39 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. Looks like some good ideas are coming in! : ) After posting this bulletin I wondered how I would answer it. I think I would interpret "big" as big in performance and not big physically. An unbelievably super high-performance computer no bigger than a marble would be nice. It could be implanted in my brain with wires going to appropriate places. I would challenge Kasparov and all other top GMs to a match and wipe them out. They would, at first, not know what hit them. Eventually, though, they would find out and then there would be a mad scramble for all GMs to get one of these implants. Soon, the whole World of chess would be playing with these things. : ) Bob D.
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