Author: Jari Huikari
Date: 06:18:51 03/16/00
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On March 16, 2000 at 09:02:26, Harald Faber wrote: >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. >>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) :-) This doesn't help much. :-) IIRC that was number of all different games. Number of possible positions is certainly lower than number of possible games. But how much lower? Jari
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