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Subject: Re: New Gothic Chess Opening Book

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 18:16:33 01/23/04

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On January 23, 2004 at 01:18:59, Ed Trice wrote:

>Hi Keith,
>
>
>>
>>Keep it up and you'll need to retract your statement - "Imagine that, a fun game
>> with no opening theory, and the creative mind with a strong will to  persevere
>>actually wins. Isn't that what chess is supposed to be about?"
>
>You might want to take another quick look at....
>
>http://www.GothicChess.org/ic.html
>
>There are 32,099,674,107,692,140,366,789,953,222,888,490,987,180,838,400,000,000
>positions without a piece coming off the board.
>
>I think 7500 is a lot smaller than this :)

And how many positions do you expect a patzer like me to memorize ;-) Promise
not too add any more?



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