Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 12:23:48 03/19/05
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On March 19, 2005 at 09:13:47, Norm Pollock wrote: >Does a chess game exceed 1 googol (1.0x10^100) possible moves? > >Yes! > >A 60 move (120 ply) game with an average of 30 possible moves per ply has > >30^120 = possible moves = 1.8 x 10^177 I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to measure, but there have been long threads here where people were able to pack a chessboard into 120 bits or so, which means there are no more than 10^40 or so unique chess positions. anthony
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