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Subject: Re: Is this solvable by brute force?

Author: Edward Seid

Date: 07:46:29 09/18/03

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On September 18, 2003 at 10:32:44, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>The branching factor is at most 8 (initial position) and in the 'middlegame'
>about 4. It seems to me that the average game would be no more than 32 moves,
>and I think 50 would be a realistic upper bound.

I should mention that all the normal pawn movements apply, such as the 2-square
initial advance and enpassant capturing.

So with 8 pawns able to move one or two squares on the first move, the branching
factor is 8x2=16 in the initial posiiton.



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