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Subject: Re: How many unique positions from start?

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 05:54:37 06/12/03

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On June 11, 2003 at 18:21:59, Chris Hull wrote:

>How many unique positions result beginning with the starting position, after 1
>move, 2 moves, 3 moves...?
>
>This is like the perf but only count unique positions.
>
>Chris

It's pretty easy to work this out for yourself with a pen and paper, for the
first few moves at least.

After 0 moves: 1 position
After 1 move:  20 positions
After 2 moves: 400 positions

I'll leave the rest to you.



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