Hello Alan and everyone.
A quote from Popular Science in 2010:
"According to Jonathan Schaeffer, a computer scientist at the University of
Alberta who demonstrates A.I. using games, "The possible number of chess games
is so huge that no one will invest the effort to calculate the exact number."
Some have estimated it at around 10100,000. Out of those, 10120 games are
“typical”: about 40 moves long with an average of 30 choices per move."
A frequent quote is that the number of possible chess games is larger than the
number of atoms in the observable universe. Personally I'm not going to start
counting.
Best wishes,
Tyson
On 15 June 2017 at 22:37 Alan Dicey. <adicey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Friends,
I have read a couple of times that the possible number of different Games
which could be played with a 64 square Chess Board and 32 pieces is
equivalent to the number of atoms in the universe.
I have a Question I would appreciate some help with!!
What is the name of the "equation" which was invented to determine how
many
Chess Games there could be?
I think it was named after the mathematician who came up with it.
For some reason, Ran number or Ram Number comes to my mind, but a search
on
the Internet does not yield anything.
Thanks for any assistance with this question.
With Best Regards,
God Bless,
Alan
Plantation, Florida
