# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1383985106 18000
# Node ID ace7f097eb6cecbab88ab411994500236963b672
# Parent  dc521fea9219f194779e886c1d5007459c029681
add chess idea.

diff -r dc521fea9219 -r ace7f097eb6c org/ideas.org
--- a/org/ideas.org	Wed Nov 06 16:37:37 2013 -0500
+++ b/org/ideas.org	Sat Nov 09 03:18:26 2013 -0500
@@ -31,6 +31,23 @@
 getting credit.
 #+end_quote
 
+- chess visual :: to show the vast size of the game trees considered
+                  by computers, show two people playing chess in a
+                  void. They are floating in space, and there is a
+                  simple chess board between them. Then, as they play,
+                  the game tree's they are considering are drawn
+                  behind him. The root of the tree starts centered in
+                  their heads or whatever they use to think, and the
+                  tree grows out from behind, never crossing the
+                  dividing plane between the two players. Each
+                  player's tree is a different color. As they grow,
+                  there are animations for pruning, etc. Eventually,
+                  they look like the hemispheres of a brain, wings,
+                  etc. A human's tree might occasionally have a long
+                  chain, while the computer tree would be more
+                  uniform. You could compare deep blue and a modern
+                  laptop. Use actual data when fighting two computers! 
+
 - time verification :: some standard way to verify that some piece of
      data was recorded at a specific time. Might involve a time
      server, a key for each time period, something liek that.