Figure from ROBOT, Moravec, Oxford, 1998, Chapter 6: The Age of Mind, page 188
time loop perfect chess machine

                                                                                                                                       
Chess solver
Combining tricks from both quantum and time-traveling computers, this circuit searches the move/countermove possibilities for all possible games of chess to find the best possible next move. It consists of a chain of about 100 ``single-move-units.''

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