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Subject: Number of interesting positions

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 21:08:52 07/28/98

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On July 28, 1998 at 08:46:21, Komputer Korner wrote:

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>The number of legal positions is the most important stat as far as computers are
>concerned.  10^42 has been put as a lower bound with 10^60 as an upper bound. I
>am not sure as to the mathematical accuracy of these though.

It would be very interesting to estimate the number of positions where one side
doesn't have a "decisive advantage" which is of course not easy to define. A way
to estimate this number could be to set up positions randomly and evaluate them
with a computer. Then you get the relation between balanced and unbalanced
positions which has to be multiplied with the number of legal positions.

Greetings,
Steffen.

• Re: Number of interesting positions blass uri 21:28:25 07/28/98
  • Re: Number of interesting positions Steffen Jakob 21:33:50 07/28/98
    • Re: Number of interesting positions blass uri 22:44:17 07/28/98
      • Re: Number of interesting positions Steffen Jakob 22:58:31 07/28/98
        • Re: Number of interesting positions Don Dailey 03:38:00 07/29/98

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