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Subject: Re: 32-piece tablebases (Philosophical Question)

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:57:54 04/04/02

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On April 04, 2002 at 02:17:21, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On April 03, 2002 at 21:42:33, Scott Gasch wrote:
>
>>I know you don't want to let a little thing like reality affect this
>>hypothetical discussion but I feel obliged to point out that there are more
>>chess positions than atoms in the universe... a 32-man databse will never exist.
>
>The fact that there are more chess positions than atoms in the universe doesn't
>mean that a (compressed) 32-man tablebase will never exist.
>
>Sargon


Maybe not, but it would take a quintillion years to produce and would consume,
even compressed 1000:1, a few quadrillion quadrillion terabytes.



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