You might find this article interesting:bob wrote:Simply not possible with any conceivable approach. More chess positions than atoms in the universe, by a _large_ margin. Even using quantum states to store multiple bits per atom would not be possible as there are not enough states.Terry McCracken wrote:Robert..Never say Never! I think throwing out a number like that was irresponsibly stupid as well, but we don't know when or exactly how chess will be solved. However, I do believe it's possible with the right technology and methods.bob wrote:that 2060 stuff shows such an incredible lack of comprehension that it really doesn't deserve a comment at all. It is a ridiculous statement. Only down-side is that I doubt I will live long enough for the idiocy of that statement to be proven. I'm almost 60 now. I'd need to live past 120 to see that fallacy put to rest...James Constance wrote:http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070716/ ... 16-13.html
chess won't be solved by 2060. Or even 2160.
Terry
This is something that simply is not going to happen. Even a density of one billion times one billion times greater than today's chips won't even come close...
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc ... 9/bob2.htm
"David Deutsch and Artur Ekert of the University of Oxford in England have considered how a chess-playing quantum computer would use Grover's procedure. It could investigate a trillion possible continuations from a given position in the same number of steps as a conventional computer would need to check out a million. Quantum superposition allows the computer to cancel out a lot of unpromising possibilities that a conventional computer must look into one by one."