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MathJakob
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I've googled this and it appears that there doesn't seem to be an exact number of games. Assume that no illegal moves are allowed, peices must start in their correct squares and each game lasts a total of 40 moves.
Is there a way to work out exactly how many 40 move games exist? There are a few different upper bounds but they include illegal moves, pawns on the first rank and kings on adjacent squares ect.
Any particular reason why there are only estimations on the number of games? I guess it's pretty difficult to work out exactly how many games exist...
Is there a way to work out exactly how many 40 move games exist? There are a few different upper bounds but they include illegal moves, pawns on the first rank and kings on adjacent squares ect.
Any particular reason why there are only estimations on the number of games? I guess it's pretty difficult to work out exactly how many games exist...