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Subject: Re: Possible chess moves.

Author: Angelo Ciavarella

Date: 12:47:13 05/22/03

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On May 22, 2003 at 14:23:39, margolies,marc wrote:

>angelo, i went to the url you mentioned, wherein the author does not discuss
>'chessmoves' at all,-- he discusses 'chess positions'-- which are a
>mathematically different and of a different numerical order.
>a move involves 2 squares on the board and at most 3 different pieces(e.g. pawn
>captures knight with promotion to rook)
>but a chess position uses 64 squares and all existant pieces whose number can
>vary.
>while what that author says could be true, i am assuming you were misled or
>misunderstood him.
>best regards- marc

Marc,if you go to that site again,he says that there are 10 to the 75th power
atoms in the universe.He also says that this number is dwarfed by the number of
possible chess MOVES.Thanks for your interest.-Angelo



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