Why not up the ante and make it global? Add a GPS to the palm and transmit your location around the globe, so you could meet ppl all over where your travel takes you and kill and plunder them.
Seriously, is this game really getting any adepts? i'd rather hone my social skills at a weekend long rave and blast the ppl i play with in Counter Strike.
Well.. sorta, cos now you and jimmy can split the cost of an internet DSL connection (or a cable, or a T-3) running to either house. Which would still be more than what you pay for 56k but it should be faster.
Especially if you have a small office near your house (it doenst talk about distance limits but i am assuming around 10~20mi) and you can share the bandwidth with it.
The important thing here is if they are making any new breakthrus in the logic behind the chess game solving... or if all they are doing is throwing only more cpu speed and memory into the same old Chessmaster (or whichever) algorithms and move-tables.
I wonder what would the total possible move combinations there are... and how much memory would they need to store them all. 8*8 sq, 16 pieces per side... 2 different opening moves for pawns... ok it would be a LOT, but would it be in the doable numbers ?
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Why not up the ante and make it global? Add a GPS to the palm and transmit your location around the globe, so you could meet ppl all over where your travel takes you and kill and plunder them.
Seriously, is this game really getting any adepts? i'd rather hone my social skills at a weekend long rave and blast the ppl i play with in Counter Strike.
Or seek private funding within the US to continue their work...
Well.. sorta, cos now you and jimmy can split the cost of an internet DSL connection (or a cable, or a T-3) running to either house. Which would still be more than what you pay for 56k but it should be faster.
Especially if you have a small office near your house (it doenst talk about distance limits but i am assuming around 10~20mi) and you can share the bandwidth with it.
The important thing here is if they are making any new breakthrus in the logic behind the chess game solving ... or if all they are doing is throwing only more cpu speed and memory into the same old Chessmaster (or whichever) algorithms and move-tables.
... and how much memory would they need to store them all. 8*8 sq, 16 pieces per side... 2 different opening moves for pawns... ok it would be a LOT, but would it be in the doable numbers ?
I wonder what would the total possible move combinations there are