Author: William Rex
Date: 18:52:00 12/25/03
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Gary Kasparov or super computer? who has a better chance 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
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