Re: CPUs at 30 Ghz in the year 2005

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From: liam
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:17

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In rec.games.chess.politics Robert Hyatt <hyatt@crafty.cis.uab.edu> wrote:

> Here is a terrifying thought:  If you make the raw assumption that there
> are 10^50 chess positions possible (this is based on many attempts to
> find the smallest number of bits necessary to store any legal chess position
> plus enpassant status and castling status), then the tablebase generator
> has an interesting task:

You don't need to search them all. Once you have a won position, you don't
need to analyze every position from there.

For example, give me a "dead" position, a knight up, and it's a
theoretical win, I can assure you, even if I might not win it against
Kasparov.

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