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Originally Posted by racenarios
"All" you had to do to become a chess master was to learn the approximately 1M moves that are possible on a fixed chessboard with pieces whose moves are controlled by fixed rules.
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ONE MILLION?
I always liked Dick Mitchell, but he had this grossly underestimated.
I recall reading a book - I think it was
Artificial Life - where the potential situations on a chessboard could be describe as -
If you studied one position per second, and started back at the time of the Big Bang, you'd not yet be half way through all the possibilities.
Nevertheless, he was right about horse racing having an infinite number of permutations. One reason for that is that the game falls into the category of
Complex Adaptive System.
That is, the game is constantly evolving and changing.
By comparison, there actually are a finite number of chess situations.