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Subject: Re: Chess and O(1)

Author: Jesper Antonsson

Date: 12:04:41 05/10/01

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On May 09, 2001 at 19:04:19, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 09, 2001 at 18:51:34, Andrew Dados wrote:
>[snip]
>>One proof is that tablebases are computable. And you may precalculate their
>>sizes. And they are correct.
>
>6 piece tablebase files are computable.
>
>A 32 piece tablebase file is most definitely not computable by any sane measure.

In theory, it is computable. That we do not have enough time and space is a bit
beside the point.

>Gedankenexperiment:
>
>Your boss has asked you to analyze a chess engine for big-O performance.
>
>Will you really report O(1)?
>BE HONEST.
>;-)

Yes, honest. :-P I will also report it's practical behaviour, of course.



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