No, it's actually very complex once you start to think about it as a programming problem....
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Pauline:
Peter, did you ever stop and ask yourself how many squares are on a chess board? Bishton:
64. It's an 8 by 8 grid. Pauline:
Well... but don't you see how limited that is? Bishton:
No, it's actually very complex once you start to think about it as a programming problem. Just the number of possible games explodes exponentially with each move, it's close to 10 to the 120th power. And to try and compute all those games might take even longer than humanity would be around to do so
Peter, did you ever stop and ask yourself how many squares are on a chess board? Bishton:
64. It's an 8 by 8 grid. Pauline:
Well... but don't you see how limited that is? Bishton:
No, it's actually very complex once you start to think about it as a programming problem. Just the number of possible games explodes exponentially with each move, it's close to 10 to the 120th power. And to try and compute all those games might take even longer than humanity would be around to do so
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But Peter did you ever ask yourself
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How many squares are there on a chessboard
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64
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It's an eight by eight grid
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Well but don't you see how limited that is
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No
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It's actually very complex when you start to think about it as a programming problem
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Just the number of possible games explode exponentially with each move
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It's close to 10 to 120th power
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and to try and compute all those games
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might take even longer than humanity would be around to do so
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Movie Summary
At the American Computer Chess Convention, enthusiasts gather to pit their programs against other computer chess programs and human players in a tournament for a grand prize of $7500.
