Chess is solved by quantum computers, so WHY PLAY???

why? some one's going to make a e-book -illions of pages long some day...

why do you play?

Because I'm not a computer.

Except currently quantum computers are completely feeble.  My cell phone is a GM but quantum computers can't do elementary arithmetic. 

hey, they may not be able to do the basics, but they can solve super hard stuff

Then why haven't they figured out how to solve the economic crisis yet?

cause that's not black and white, plus how do you expect to build one of their ideas?

If a robot that dominated a football game was invented, people would still play football.

They are starting to sound more and more human.  Future thinking, I predicit that Quantum Computers will have 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of Harddrive.  When they are tasked to process something they will simply auto search google and print out the applicable wiki page.

lol

But do we really have that much ram?

normally no

Also, I read in a science magazine that we have 12000GB of memory.

not short term

people who agree to a draw because they are afraid of making a mistake....takes the human element out of chess.

If there were set algorithms for chess, they'd be so long and tedious to memorize that they would negate the mental stimulation and sense of discovery that the human brain looks for. If chess loses its relevance, how about we convert our efforts to the topology of mathematics, and put our game obsession to good use.

If Turing had been off playing chess instead of inventing the Turing Machine, there might not have been computers today to problem ourselves about their taking over of the chess world.

I'm aware.

I think, therefore I am.

We play, therefore we is! (are)

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy .....

As soon as I solve quantum computers, they have to quit too.

I dont play to solve chess... i play for fun... enjoyment.

Nope.

The basics of "quantum computing" are that you can do a lot of multiplications as fast as a single one and pick up all the results afterwards, but for now, the best they managed to do is 3x5.

I personally have a friend who worked at a laboratory where they tried to go up to 3x7 (and failed for now at least). The problem is that unlike standard computers where you can just align RAM chips and parallelize them, here you need the quantum bits to be cooled down a lot and avoid all nonwanted interaction (with environment for instance), so each aditional memory bit is a pain.

So, "chess is solved by quantum computers"... assuming that those exist anytime soon with decent computing power (impossible in the next 10 years, but maybe later) AND that someone makes the algorithm to solve chess in a quantum way (which not many people are interested in, but of course, some scientists have time on their hands ; probably not achieved before the hardware becomes feasible though). One particularity of quantum algorithms is that you cannot copy variables due to physics, and it makes the programming quite complicated if you think it through.