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Subject: Re: how many possible variations of chess games are there?

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 03:13:23 02/18/03

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On February 18, 2003 at 05:59:44, Andreas Stabel wrote:

>On February 18, 2003 at 05:58:13, george wrote:
>
>>50.000.000 games for sure.
>I would say more than that, at least 57 714 511 games.
>
>Regards
>Andreas
Previous Posts from mathmaticians have estimated
"more than the grains of sand or molecules in the observable Universe"
10 to the 43rd power was a conservative estimate.
Steinitz in his Handbook also answers the question... but I don't
have the copy.

• Re: how many possible variations of chess games are there? Sune Fischer 03:42:36 02/18/03
• Re: how many possible variations of chess games are there? Andreas Stabel 03:39:28 02/18/03
  • Re: how many possible variations of chess games are there? Charles Worthington 06:08:55 02/18/03
    • Re: how many possible variations of chess games are there? Mike Hood 18:14:23 02/18/03
    • Re: how many possible variations of chess games are there? chandler yergin 08:02:08 02/18/03

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