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Subject: Re: How many chess Openings and variations in Chess960 positions are there?

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 22:46:02 07/08/05

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On July 07, 2005 at 20:47:33, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>Since the standard chess Opening is one of the 960 Fischer Random Positions, and
>there are many Standard chess openings, could we simply determine the amount of
>possible Chess960 openings by multiplying the amount of chess opening in the
>standard chess position by 960, or the process in much more complicated than
>that?

Hi Jorge,

to follow such thoughts is OLD thinking. Chess960 is intended for to have a
CREATIVE game from its very beginning. Chess players or programmers who would
favour to REPRODUCE precalculated knowledge from huge tables or databases are
encouraged to stay within the traditional chess scene. Concerning chess
programming just such programs will get long range benefits which are avoiding
the use of huge look-up tables and instead are trying to become more intelligent
by improving own methods. It would be a good idea (as I have suggested for long)
to have the persistant data of a chess program being limited to 1/4 MB
(compressed size).

Regards, Reinhard Scharnagl



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