Author: margolies,marc
Date: 16:42:28 05/22/03
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angelo, your response is not clear to me. are you disputing that the author is writing about chess positions-not moves-- because of one innaccurate word in his document-- or are you explaining how he could be misunderstood? all the best-marc On May 22, 2003 at 15:47:13, Angelo Ciavarella wrote: >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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