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

Author: Charles Worthington

Date: 06:08:55 02/18/03

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On February 18, 2003 at 06:39:28, Andreas Stabel wrote:

>On February 18, 2003 at 06:13:23, chandler yergin wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>So I was right then :)
>
>Regards
>Andreas

I have seen ten to the 121st power listed in many books. That was years ago when
the old 8086 processors were considered fast so I dont know what computer could
possibly have given them that illustrious figure but there it is. :-)



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