Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 10:09:54 03/19/05
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On March 19, 2005 at 09:13:47, Norm Pollock wrote: >Does a chess game exceed 1 googol (1.0x10^100) possible moves? Possible moves????? What is this......? I could understand possible games or possible positions but possible moves.........(I think you don't mean with "possible moves", the number of all different possible moves that can be played in the game of Chess, as this would be pointless....) I think you want to say with "possible moves", the possible "number of different positions" or the possible "number of different games". In each case you just prove that the 30^120 is an upper limit, so you don't prove that each case is above 10^100........ > >Yes! > >A 60 move (120 ply) game with an average of 30 possible moves per ply has > >30^120 = possible moves = 1.8 x 10^177
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