Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 01:35:59 03/03/05
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On March 03, 2005 at 01:09:27, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >See at http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/schachzahl1b_e.html where it is shown, that >in average there is a limit of 164 bit to store a complete 8x8 board situation. Reinhard, you have repeated it several times. So I can repeat my contradiction once in a while, too :-) It is not shown (proven) on that page. Actually I have given you a disproof long ago, including a legal game reaching a position that needed quite a few bits more to store the reached position. To show it, you have to count somehow, how many positions will fit in the 164 bit and how many won't. I personally don't see how this could be done. Of course I agree, that most/all "normal" (say in the sense of happening in real games) positions will fit in those 164 bit. I also agree, that the scheme is rather nice. But it will not help to estimate the number of legal chess positions as given. Especially "there is a limit of 164 bit" is wrong. What "in average" means in this context, I don't understand. Regards, Dieter
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