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Subject: Re: How many chess positions or moves exist in chess???

Author: Charles Milton Ling

Date: 09:12:06 12/22/00

On December 22, 2000 at 11:49:22, Tania Devora wrote:

>
>How many positions or moves exist in chess?
>
>
>I mean all the possible moves!,
>good moves, stupid moves like. 1.h4 1.a5. 2.Th3 2.a4 Ta3 3.Ta6 3.Tg3 4.Ta6 Th3
>etc etc........
>
>I think that the number will be verrryyyy HUUGEE!! I think that any machine or
>computer in the future  could see all the possibilities in chess.
>
>What do you think?  Anybody have an idea? of how many possibilities exist in the
>chess game?

I recall having read that the number of possible games is far greater than the
number of atoms in the known universe (or something to that effect).

Charley

Re: How many chess positions or moves exist in chess??? Georg Langrath 04:05:05 12/23/00
Re: How many chess positions or moves exist in chess??? Terry McCracken 10:34:46 12/22/00
- Re: How many chess positions or moves exist in chess??? Hans Havermann 08:30:00 12/24/00
  - Re: How many chess positions or moves exist in chess??? Terry McCracken 12:46:00 12/24/00
    - Re: How many chess positions or moves exist in chess??? Vincent Diepeveen 17:35:51 12/24/00
- Re: How many chess positions or moves exist in chess??? Terry McCracken 10:46:10 12/22/00
  - Re: How many chess positions or moves exist in chess??? Tania Devora 13:51:01 12/22/00
    - Re: How many chess positions or moves exist in chess??? Terry McCracken 15:00:44 12/22/00
      - In 50 years world champion needs handicap levels in pocket chess! (NT) Georg Langrath 04:15:04 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Joshua Lee 06:01:29 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Uri Blass 09:25:18 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! - still a small number! Gregor Overney 23:25:31 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! - still a small number! Joshua Lee 07:55:15 12/25/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Robert Hyatt 09:44:52 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Uri Blass 11:41:37 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Robert Hyatt 14:56:23 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Vincent Vega 18:42:55 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Robert Hyatt 20:40:29 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Vincent Vega 23:23:29 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Robert Hyatt 09:55:28 12/24/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Vincent Vega 17:40:58 12/26/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Tania Devora 11:10:01 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Robert Hyatt 14:57:06 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Joshua Lee 15:41:53 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Uri Blass 23:58:19 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Robert Hyatt 09:56:31 12/24/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Uri Blass 10:21:38 12/24/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Dan Newman 14:20:28 12/24/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Dieter Buerssner 15:14:22 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Uri Blass 11:23:23 12/23/00
        
        Re: 10^120 is the answer regis! Timothy J. Frohlick 11:17:37 12/23/00
        
        Re:10^120 -- What happen if two machine played perfect chess? Draw?? Tania Devora 18:47:59 12/23/00
        
        Re:10^120 -- What happen if two machine played perfect chess? Draw?? Gregor Overney 23:34:11 12/23/00

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