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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So it's doable? That's all I needed to hear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Are you a theoretical computer scientist?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

69 followed by 108 zeros

Nice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

for just the number of possible games.

for just the MINIMUM number of possible games. (lower bound)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I responded to the wrong comment. Sorry.