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Subject: Re: computer calculations of number of ways to play first 10-ply

Author: Danniel Corbit

Date: 07:06:43 07/29/98

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On July 29, 1998 at 08:03:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On July 29, 1998 at 00:50:21, Danniel Corbit wrote:
>
>>On July 28, 1998 at 14:50:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>
>>>You're right. Your suggestion has downgraded the problem from impossible to
>>>slightly less impossible. :)
>>I suspect that in reality, the number of sensible moves drops off very, very
>>rapidly.  If you look at a database of 500K GM games, after about 10 plies, the
>
>The second you limit the conversation to "sensible moves," you start a religious
>war.
Let's say, for the sake of jihad, that we define sensible moves in the following
manner:
From a given FEN position, look at what every GM who has ever visited that
position has done.
From the same FEN position, let every top commercial and amateur program examine
that position for 24 hours.
At this point, we would have, I suspect, a small list of possible very good
moves, a mid sized list of so-so moves, and a large list of bad moves.



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