[Retros] Ultimate question

Christoph Fieberg christoph at fieberg.com
Tue Feb 8 17:34:34 EST 2005




>Guys,

>

>It's all about finding questions at the right level of difficulty. How

>hard is the following one to answer?

>

> Which of the billion-odd at-home positions are (S)PGs?

>

>Regards,

>Andrew.


You could extend the question to the ultimate question:

Which of the maximum 30,3*10^45 chess positions are (S)PGs?

For the figure which I calculated as lowest maximum number of distinct
chess positions see my article in the magazine "Computer Schach & Spiele",
issue 2/02.

Regards,
Christoph




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