Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 16:00:03 03/01/98
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Yes, in my article called Chess numbers in the June 1994 issue of En Passant magazine, I calculated 7492 legal possible moves. This has been done before with Berliner's piece square tables. As far as the total number of legal positions it is around 10^42. So you would have to develop all the different number of tablebases for all the different piece/pawn sets and then retrograde them the same way the endgame tablebases are done and then you would have the perfect solution. I believe this is impossible because the number of positions is just too high. A quicker way is to do massive opening analysis with parallel cpus or with sets of cpus. The opening analysis can get so deep that all the strategy will have been taken out of the game ( many present day GM games already achieve this). Thus we are left with endgames which can be tablebased as per the above. This is not a perfect solution, but it is scary.
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