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What is the point? What a few years and you can get an equivalent AI on your home computer. Play as many games as you want.

Of course, you can change rules as much as you want and generate new marketing events. Personally, I would like a match where the AI is only allowed the energy a human uses. I guess, AlphaGo would lose with only 2000 kcal (2.3 kWh). Not sure about chess.




A custom-built chess computer comsuming 200W would certainly win against Carlsen - even the smartphone in your pocket might.

Pocket Fritz (HIARCS) was winning Grandmaster tournaments and got rated at 2800-2900 Elo - on a smartphone in 2009 using 1W worth of power without offloading to a GPU. The GPU in a more modern phone like the Samsung Galaxy S5 can crunch 140 GFLOPS - an order of magnitude more than Deep Blue (11 GFLOPS). Allowing 200W of power draw raises your computation power into the TFLOPS area (using a PS4, say). No contest - even without two decades of chess engine improvement over Deep Blue.


A phone with Stockfish would beat the top players today, but I'm not sure how much energy a phone uses.




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