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meh. I think it would have been more interesting had the author discussed more granular estimates. Mathematicians have narrowed it down more by considering the

• LegionMammal978 10mo ago
  Assuming you're referring to [0], that's a statistical estimate of valid chess positions (based on clever methods of uniform position sampling + fast validity testing), not valid chess games (based on estimating branching factors for very long games). [0] https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking