Author: blass uri
Date: 21:28:25 07/28/98
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On July 29, 1998 at 00:08:52, Steffen Jakob wrote: >On July 28, 1998 at 08:46:21, Komputer Korner wrote: > >[...] > >>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 I do not understand how to set up positions randomly. If you set up a general random position then practically all the positions you set up will be illegal. For example if one side has 6 queens and 6 rooks it is illegal because at least 5 queens and 4 rooks were pawns in the beginining of the game. maybe 1 out of 100000000000000000000 will be legal but you have not infinite time. Uri > 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.
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