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Subject: Re: How many different chess positions there exists?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 06:02:26 03/16/00

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On March 16, 2000 at 07:44:22, Jari Huikari wrote:

>Sorry folks, but someone asked this in a finnish news group... Has anyone
>tried to calculate any value for this? Perhaps someone could tell at least
>some minimum and/or maximum values and how they have been calculated.
>
>					Jari
>
>P.S. How many different end game positions there are with few men?
>(This should be easier, when EGTBs cover all situations. Or do they?)

IIRC it was around 10^120 or 10^124 possible positions after 40 moves... :-)
(Don't ask me how many of them are finished at that point) :-)

• Re: How many different chess positions there exists? Jari Huikari 06:18:51 03/16/00
  • Re: How many different chess positions there exists? blass uri 07:41:56 03/16/00
    • Re: How many different chess positions there exists? Hans Havermann 20:48:43 03/16/00
      • Re: How many different chess positions there exists? blass uri 22:20:44 03/16/00
    • Re: How many different chess positions there exists? Dan Andersson 08:10:43 03/16/00
      • Re: How many different chess positions there exists? Pete Galati 08:32:07 03/16/00
        • Re: How many different chess positions there exists? blass uri 09:38:20 03/16/00

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