Engineering360: "Can You Solve This Million-Dollar Chess Puzzle?"

A million dollars to do the impossible seems rather a lowball figure...How about make it $100 million?

It's really not the 1 million dollar prize. It's the clear fact that you wouldn't want to solve this puzzle and if you did, you wouldn't want to tell anybody. Solving the puzzle would put you into one of two or possibly both categories :

A. The most dangerous person in the world.

B. The most protected person in the world.

In A, every government and many private individuals would send out an army of hit men to knock you off.

In B, every government in the world would put you in isolation so secure that that every hit man couldn't knock you off.

Either way, 1 million or 100 million wouldn't do you much good.

Fear has never been a governing factor in my life....common sense on the other hand has had an ever increasing role over the years....I'm old, you can't threaten me with anything, because there is nothing quite as intimidating as old age...and certainly not the consequences of winning a large cash prize....haha

I worked for a company that used to say "the computer can't do it" because they had 5 digit part numbers and were unwilling to pay to change the software. This article should be more clear and say they want an algorithm that is x fast not say computers can't do it because that is patently untrue.