Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 08:53:38 01/24/05
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On January 22, 2005 at 14:59:49, Duncan Roberts wrote: >On January 21, 2005 at 22:50:08, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1558 > > >I assume you know this. >http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1563 > >btw you once said it may be possible to solve chess with 50 ? acres of hard >drive. ? (possible one or 2 other caveats as well) It was 50,000 acres of a special crystal that will hold a terrabyte per square centimeter. And I assumed that you could solve chess with the square root of the number of possible positions in a perfectly ordered tree, but I think that conjecture is faulty. It might require the square of that (so 50,000*50,000 acres). >I would like to get feedback from hyatt on this as he seems to require a few >galaxies. would you be able to repeat the calculation, so Prof Hyatt can respond It was pretty much tongue-in-cheek, as we are probably talking about a trillion dollar project there, even with the 50,000 acres. (On the plus side, the material is an inexpensive crystal normally used for dosimeters). At any rate, whether chess will be solved or not is an open question. If technological progress continues at its present rate, then it is inevitiable. But is it going to do that? Nobody knows.
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