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

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 15:42:11 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?)

In fact many, but you can simplify a little bit thinking there are only three
that matters: those you are going to win, that you are going to lose and the one
you are going to draw and let you see  learly how much time you expend in vain
with chess :-)
Fernando



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