Computer Chess Club Archives

Search

Messages

Subject: Re: pre-chess

Author: Marc Bourzutschky

Date: 14:27:10 05/16/04

Go up one level in this thread

On May 16, 2004 at 17:12:12, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On May 16, 2004 at 14:28:48, Marc Bourzutschky wrote:
>
>>Max Euwe: 4,147,200
>>Noam Elkies: 8,294,400
>>Paul Epstein: 5,317,600
>>Marc Bourzutschky: 5,149,368
>
>Dieter Bürßner: 4,665,582
>
>Idea: 2880 positions per side, of which 2694 have no castling possibilities.
>
>x = 2880^2-2694^2/2
>
>I fear, I thought too simple,
>Dieter

If instead of 2694 in your formula you use 2508 you get the Bourzutschky result.
 The difference is that 2508 is the number of positions where neither the
position itself, nor the mirrored position, has castling rights...

• Re: pre-chess Norm Pollock 16:56:08 05/16/04
  • Re: pre-chess Marc Bourzutschky 17:21:38 05/16/04
    • Re: pre-chess Norm Pollock 17:40:35 05/16/04
      • Re: pre-chess Marc Bourzutschky 17:51:49 05/16/04
        • Re: pre-chess Norm Pollock 18:24:16 05/16/04
          • Re: pre-chess Marc Bourzutschky 19:20:23 05/16/04
• Re: pre-chess Dieter Buerssner 14:55:59 05/16/04

This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.