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Silly question, why does the author only approximate the number of possible positions in chess?
by skc 12y ago
Silly question, why does the author only approximate the number of possible positions in chess?
- joelthelion 12y agoBecause the real number is unknown?
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- tromp 12y agoIt's not like Go where you can actually count the number of reachable positions. Deciding whether a single chess position is reachable can be really hard. There is a whole class of so called "retrograde" chess problems focussed on that. For example, is the following position reachable? White: Kc3 Ba4 Black: Kd1 Rb5 Bd5