this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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There's a mathematician that figured that there's 10^120 possible chess games, as a lower bound. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number#:~:text=Shannon%20showed%20a%20calculation%20for,a%20Computer%20for%20Playing%20Chess%22. That's a 1 followed by 120 zeros for just the number of possible games. With this method they'd have to manually go through every move for every one of those games. If we say a game lasts 30 turns on average and they'd take 1 second to code each turn (realistically it'd be longer) it'd take 6.9*10^109 (69 followed by 108 zeros) times as long as the age of the universe.
So it's doable? That's all I needed to hear.
Are you a theoretical computer scientist?
Nice
for just the MINIMUM number of possible games. (lower bound)
I did say lower bound, yes
I responded to the wrong comment. Sorry.