Author: walter irvin
Date: 15:29:45 10/30/00
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On October 30, 2000 at 12:42:23, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 30, 2000 at 10:43:26, walter irvin wrote: > >>On October 29, 2000 at 23:15:51, Michael Neish wrote: >> >>> >>>Hello, >>> >>>I don't really want to post another naive "How many possible Chess positions are >>>there?" comment, but I believe that of the huge number of possible positions >>>only a relatively small fraction are actually interesting. What I mean is, if >>>you could count all possible piece/square permutations I suppose most of them >>>will be materially unbalanced, with the outcome generally in favour of the side >>>with greater material. These positions could be considered "solved". Then a >>>small fraction of these will be materially balanced or almost-balanced >>>positions, with an unclear outcome, and could be considered "unsolved". >>> >>>Does anyone know whether any estimate has been made on the proportion of >>>unsolved to solved positions in Chess? I guess it would represent a substantial >>>trimming of the overall game tree. >>> >>>Cheers, >>> >>>Mike. >>you know once you subtract all the assinine positions and get right down to >>positions that can be safely reached vs strong opposition the actual number of >>good positions is a number that alot of pc's could actually handle.i think >>people try to make chess seem like this great unsolvable game when in reality if >>all the junk were thrown out ,all the good positions prob fit on a 40 gig hard >>drive. > >I totally disagree. >40 gig hard drive are not enough to save only the important 7 piece tablebases >positions(even if you do not include positions when one side is clearly >winning). > >It is possible to check it by doing a program that generates a random position >with 7 pieces and counting the number of interesting positions. > >Uri i would say you are 1000% right if it were not for one part of my statement i said only positions that can be safely reached vs strong opposition .there are tons of positions that are even that can not be reached vs strong opposition .
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