Author: blass uri
Date: 22:48:59 07/28/98
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On July 29, 1998 at 00:59:28, Danniel Corbit wrote: >On July 28, 1998 at 23:07:40, Steven J. Edwards wrote: > >>Here are the numbers for trajectory enumerations (distinct legal pathways) for >>the first few ply depth values: >> >>ply: 0 count: 1 >>ply: 1 count: 20 >For the first move for white, there are obviously 20 legal possible moves. >[pawns up 1 or 2 spaces = 16 + the four knight moves]. So what does the count >of 1 at ply zero mean? It means there is only 1 possible game with 0 moves for both sides in the initial position. Uri > >>ply: 2 count: 400 >>ply: 3 count: 8902 >>ply: 4 count: 197281 >>ply: 5 count: 4865609 >> >>For ply=6, the number is a little under 120 million and for ply=7 it's about 3.1 >>billion. I haven't calculated ply=8 yet, but is should be just under 100 >>billion. >> >>-- Steven (sje@mv.mv.com)
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