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Subject: Re: movement and complexity in chess... (somewhat long post)

Author: Dan Ellwein

Date: 11:44:01 03/04/00

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On March 03, 2000 at 09:06:41, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>Dan,
>
>You should present this before a US congressional committee and they might give
>you a large grant to do further research.  If you could tie this in with solving
>the national debt and defense problems you would do quite well.
>
<grin>

>Seriously, this an is interesting presentation.  Thank you.
>
>I knew that there were less than
>4,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
> moves in chess.
>
>Tim Frohlick

actually... according to this scheme the number of moves (for one side anyway)
would be:

420x98x98x420x224x40x14x56x22x72x72x336x192x336x8x50x50x260x160x32x32x192x128x
 18x18x132x96x8x8x80x64x2x2x36x32 = _________________

Total Moves in Chess (One Side)

a rather large number...

Dan



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