Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:06:49 06/17/99
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On June 17, 1999 at 19:01:31, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 17, 1999 at 17:30:00, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>We all know that move generators can tell us how many legal moves exist in the >>first <n> ply if written correctly. Here is a new kind of question about it: >>How many "distinct/unique" positions are there in the first n ply? >>Some answers: >> >>Ply: Number: >>---- ------- >>0 1 >>1 20 >>2 400 >>3 7,602 >>4 101,236 > 5 1,244,216 Interesting how much ply 5 is reduced (from 4,865,609 raw positions). The reduction should be [in fact] MUCH GREATER, since most of the e.p. tags have no effect at this point.
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