Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:53:47 01/08/03
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On January 08, 2003 at 12:43:38, Uri Blass wrote: [snip] >I believe that it is possible even to find an estimate for the number of legal >position by a monta carlo method when you choose 1000 random pseudo legal >positions and find how many of them are legal. It will never be more than an estimate, though. I don't think it would constitute a proof, other than a "probabilistic proof" but we already have guesses. >It is a lot of work and I do not consider the problem important enough to do it. >I also do not think that it will help to solve chess. Here, you are clearly correct. It is like saying: "There are billions of tons of gold in seawater. Now that we have measured how much gold there is, we should just go get it." I still have your program and just recompiled it with a 300 bit mantissa extended precision class. I will post the result when it completes (I guess about 5 minutes).
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