On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Toon Moene wrote:
Robert G. Brown wrote:
Chess is arguably HPC
Only as far as it includes destruction of life as we know it:
http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/learn/html/e.8.2.shtml
:-)
Silly computers. They do NOT want to encounter the ghost of Alan Turing
-- he's got a "halting problem" with their name on it...;-)
Chess at least is a zero-sum non-stochastic game that DOES terminate,
even if we cannot reach its termination.
rgb
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