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Subject: Re: Can latest supercomputers almost solve chess yet?

Author: Angrim

Date: 15:35:14 11/16/03

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On November 15, 2003 at 23:42:40, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>This gives an indication of how many legal chess moves there are at each ply,
>
>2ply =  1,600
>3ply =  64,000
>4ply =  2,560,000
>5ply =  102,400,000
>6ply =  4,096,000,000

No, this is just badly confused gibberish.  correct would be:
2 ply 400
3 ply 8,902
4 ply 197,281
5 ply 4,865,609

and this is not taking into account transpositions, so the number of
distinct lines possible is actually lower.

Angrim



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