Re: [computer-go] Computer Go tournament at EGF

[Robin Kramer <robin@xxxxxxxx>]

Suppose we want a computer that will answer a move in nine hours, what 
is the portion of the known universe that we would be able to use as our 
go machine?

--- Robin

Chris Fant wrote:

> > I think your encription technique is flawed.  If China tries to use
> > high ranking Dan players to encode messages, then the west could
> > simply build hardware to search the entire game tree and solve the
> > problem!  Such a machine will be stronger than the eastern players.
> >
> > The speed of light is indeed a problem even inside our computers
> > today.  Presumably, to build my big GO computer I will want to use a
> > great deal of parallelism.  I think I would want to use the whole
> > universe as my computer.  Would proabably have to figure out how to
> > use wormholes to speed up communication.
> >
> > The perfect GO computer might not be that far away, perhaps a few
> > hundred/thousand years.  It truly does not seem possible with things
> > we know now, but maybe we will know more in a few hundred years?
> > Nah!!!!!
> >    
> Well since we are deep into pure theory, I might as well mention
> quantum computers.  I think they have the best hope of solving Go
> since they can use the computional resources of infinite universes.
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