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Subject: Re: Branching Rate/All reasonable positions

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 13:21:25 11/26/03

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On November 26, 2003 at 15:44:11, Dustin Moore wrote:

>Are there any theoretical numbers on the number of
>*reasonable* chess positions availible in a game?
>
>For my purposes a reasonable chess position is one
>that could be reached by two good engines looking
>out to about to ply 13 or so from a normal opening.
>
>I'm sure someone has written a paper on this at some
>point.
>
>I wonder how impossible it would be to make a massive
>hash table with all the positions likely to be reached
>in a game. I'm wondering just how many hundreds of
>TB it would take to store the hash table.



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