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Subject: Estimated # of checkmate positions?

Author: Jeff Anderson

Date: 04:55:37 07/07/99


Can anyone perhaps estimate the number of legal positions where one king is
checkmated?
Obviously the number would be much less than the number of legal positions
(perhaps 1/5000 of all legal positions), but I still imagine it would be a very
large number.
Could these positions some how, in the very distant future, have some sort of
practical purpose for computer chess?

Jeff



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