How Many Games of Chess: Exact answer given!
Adam Lake
lake at evansville.edu
Mon Apr 4 19:23:32 PDT 1994
>
>
> The natural conclusion is that the complexity of the problem depends on how
> much of the game you consider to be the `endgame'. Thus, the actual number
> of different chess games: 5
>
> 2) White mates
> 1) Black resigns
> 0) Stalemate
> -1) White resigns
> -2) Black mates
>
i am not sure this is a very reasonable question without any
restrictions. while this answer is humerous, i don't think anybody has
addressed the fact that i can move a king back and forth between 3
squares infinitely many times.
POSSIBLE answer: uncoutably infinite?
lake at uenics.evansville.edu
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Isn't it nice to have only one simple question.....
Zero or One.
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