Author: blass uri
Date: 03:07:46 02/20/00
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On February 19, 2000 at 23:12:04, Michael Fuhrmann wrote: >In the Gulko piece in Commentary magazine cited here recently, Gulko says: > >"It has been established that the total number of possible chess games which can >develop from the starting position on the board not only exceeds the number of >atoms in the known universe, but does so by a wide margin." > >Has this in fact been "established" or is this overstatement? It is a clearly correct statement. I think that the total number of games is more than 10^1000 because the number of games of 1000 moves is probably more than 10^1000 The number of legal positions is another question because it is less than 10^48. Uri
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