Author: Louis Fagliano
Date: 07:54:48 12/26/01
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On December 26, 2001 at 05:41:07, Andre Godat wrote: >Maybe God will share his 32-man tablebase with me and let me know the >ultimate truth about the game. Well heck, if we can find a way for computers to store and retrieve ten to the 43rd power number of positions we won't have to wait for God! :-) Anyway, as to the ultimate truth about the game, my gut feeling is that it is a draw from the opening position but that Black has less latitiude in the opening to stay on the "drawing path" than White. (And who knows how many Fischer Random positions are draws and how many are forced wins for White!) One note: Yes, I know that there are about ten to the 120th power number of chess games, but my ten to the 43rd power number comes from the number of legal positions there are since there a zillion-zillion... etc. number of different move orders to reach the same position; not that ten to the 43rd power is anywhere near a handlable number mind you. Have fun trying to imagine how big that number is.
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