Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:46:49 10/01/01
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On October 01, 2001 at 17:41:59, Roy Eassa wrote: >On October 01, 2001 at 15:48:50, Uri Blass wrote: > >>My counting positions program found that >>3.7010630121207222927827147741452119115968e46 is an upper bound when I >>considered only the squares of the pieces and did not consider side to move,en >>passant rule and rights to castle. > > >Would it be reasonable to round this off to 3.7e46? Or are all the extra digits >really important? Of course, the model might not be perfect. For instance, does it check for all possible illegal positions? But because it is a counting problem, all the digits are valuable. The number reported is the exact count made by Uri's model. Also, what about this: [D]rnqbkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNQBKBNR w KQkq - It can't occur in a normal chess game, but I don't see any particular rules that are violated [except maybe how to set up the board].
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