Author: blass uri
Date: 22:44:17 07/28/98
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On July 29, 1998 at 00:33:50, Steffen Jakob wrote: >On July 29, 1998 at 00:28:25, blass uri wrote: > >> >>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. > >Of course I meant to set up a random legal positions. Could be done by >making random legal moves. In this case not all the legal positions will have the same probability. Uri > >>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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