Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 09:02:04 07/07/99
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On July 07, 1999 at 07:55:37, Jeff Anderson wrote: >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. (1/5000)*10^42 is still pretty huge. >Could these positions some how, in the very distant future, have some sort of >practical purpose for computer chess? They can tell you which branch to quit chasing down. It's good to know where they are. But we'll never find them all.
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