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> I wonder what a computer chess programs ELO would be running under these ?
>
> Will a desktop computer be as strong as IBM Deeper Blue ??

Chess is a game that is not going to be solved (i.e. the complete search
from opening until ending) with current technology.  You can add a million
processors, and it might help, but it would take billions of years to
complete a search of this size even if you took every computer in the world
and put them working on this one problem.  Not to mention the space required
to store the information simply does not exist.

And on the other side of things...

I read some articles on new expiremental technology, that in "theory", will
allow us to solve problems that would take our current technology billions
of years to be solved in minutes.  It has something to do with electrons and
the way they rotate.  Assuming that this technology sometime comes into
realization, the problem of storing the massive amount of information needs
to be addressed.  I read another article (the same article actually) that
talked about another experimental technology that would allow us to store
the amount of information required in something the size of a dime.  It uses
some kind of laser light beam to store information.  Again, this is all in
theory.

But to answer your question, adding more processing power (with the current
technology) is going to help things, but not make computers be able to
destroy every GM that they play.  The top humans still have the edge over
computers in long games, and they will continue to until some new technology
of method of playing computer chess is invented/discovered.  30 GHz
processors wouldn't be as strong as Deep Blue I don't imagine because Deep
Blue was hardware for the most part, not software.  It should be interesting
to see how IBM's next project, Deep Gene, will perform.  It is said to be
able to do a quadrillion operations per second (1 million GHz).  It should
be strong, and it's using some kind of method of modeling the human brain I
believe.  So if it can accurately model the human brain and go faster than
the human brain, then we might see the end of humans having the edge over
computers in long games.