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Subject: Re: Lies.. Damn Lies & Statistics!

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 17:58:26 01/12/05

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Dann,

>>1) 10^120 possible positions
>
>This is far, far too large.  Chess positions have been encoded in 162 bits,
>which puts an absolute upper limit at 10^58 (and it is probably much less than
>that).

That's news to me - but I don't doubt it.  As for the most "moot" assumption I
say it must be to assume that Moore's law will hold up for the next 300 years.
I think we're already starting to see some cracks in the old adage!!

One things for sure - we will not see a computer solve the game of chess in our
lifetime!!

Steve



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