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Subject: Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions = (current estimated #)/4

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:12:07 01/18/02

Here is the numeric output of Uri's program:
3.70106301211527e+046

Which would indicate (if I interpret it correctly) that there are _at most_
3.7e46 distinct positions in chess.

This indicates that a chess position could be encoded in at most 155 bits (if we
were clever enough).

Even at that, it's quite a pile of board positions.

Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions = (current estimated #)/4 Sune Fischer 13:26:06 01/18/02
- Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions = (current estimated #)/4 Dann Corbit 13:43:16 01/18/02
  - Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions = (current estimated #)/4 Sune Fischer 14:13:29 01/18/02
    - Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions = (current estimated #)/4 Uri Blass 17:13:49 01/18/02
    - Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions = (current estimated #)/4 Chris Hull 16:06:26 01/18/02
      - Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions = (current estimated #)/4 Chris Hull 16:26:08 01/18/02
        
        Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions = (current estimated #)/4 Sune Fischer 16:49:25 01/18/02
        
        Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions = (current estimated #)/4 Uri Blass 17:24:52 01/18/02
        
        Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions = (current estimated #)/4 Sune Fischer 17:52:40 01/18/02
        
        Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions (FEN working) Sune Fischer 17:53:48 01/18/02
        
        Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions (FEN working) Uri Blass 00:02:41 01/19/02
        
        Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions (FEN working) Sune Fischer 02:21:43 01/19/02
        
        Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions (FEN working) Uri Blass 03:26:17 01/19/02
        
        Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions (FEN working) Sune Fischer 03:55:11 01/19/02
        
        Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions (FEN working) Uri Blass 06:58:59 01/19/02
        
        Re: Approximate # of Unique chess positions (FEN working) Uri Blass 07:25:52 01/19/02

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