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Subject: Re: A math problem for the experts....

Author: Mark Rawlings

Date: 16:47:22 10/01/01

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On October 01, 2001 at 15:48:50, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 01, 2001 at 15:14:07, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>I am not a math expert, and I know a lot of you (Uri) out there are.  So I ask
>>all you experts to solve this problem:
>>
>>                 *How many legal positions are their in chess?*
>
>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.
>

That's funny.  I got 3.70106301212072229_3_7827147741452119115968e46

Back to the drawing board...

Mark



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