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Subject: Re: chess solved

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:56:24 12/14/00

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On December 14, 2000 at 10:09:31, Joshua Lee wrote:

>This post is about as retarded as the person who didn't believe when i told them
>that their are more possible positions in chess than there are atoms in the
>universe.

1)We do not know the numbers of atoms in the universe.
The universe may be infinite and it is possible that there is an infinite number
of atoms in the universe.

2)If you include only the possible legal positions without history of the
game(you need only to know result of these positions in order to have the 32
piece tablebases) you have only something between 10^30 and 10^50 positions.

I believe that the number of atoms in the universe is bigger than 10^50.
I believe that the number of atoms in a sphere with a radius of one light year
is bigger than 10^50.

Uri



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