CHESS: Letum vs Skybird
 

Ng1-f3

Please keep this thread moves only chaps. At least until the first game is over.

Aha...!?:D

my move 1...Ng8-f6

Pg2-g3

mine 2... b7-b6

Bf1-g2

mine: 3... Bc8-b7

Nf3-h4

my move 4... Bb7xg2

if your move 5. Nh4xg2
then my move 5... e7-e5

Nh4xg2
And
Ke1-g1

You mean casteling O-O, yes, not a typo for Ke1-f1, yes?

your move assumed 6. O-O
my move 6... d7-d5

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/1700/pos10ov8.jpg


My last move for tonight.
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Pd2-d4

I wonder how many possible variations there are for any given game of chess.
If I had enough good mathematicians and enough processing power, would it be possible to solve chess for the black or white side?

In theory, yes, in practice: no. The number of possible (by rules) variations has been calculated, but it calculated to a number that is stellar in dimension.

A guy named Allis calculated the number of possible positions to be 5 x 10^52.

Influential Claude Shannon, father of the so-called Shannon-A and Shannon-B strategy in chess programming (basically brute force versus selective algorithms), showed that the number of possibel variations of a complete chessmatch is 10^120. This number is known as the "Shannon number".

If you take estimations of 80 billion galaxies existing in the universe, and count just the hydrogene atoms, an estimated calculation would lead you to ranges of around 10^79 hydrogene atoms in these 80 billion galaxies.

Okay, ow this being my last move of the night. :)

7... e5xd4

Pawns are not indicated by a P in notation, btw. Neither in short nor in long notation. ;)

yours 8. Qd1xd4

mine 8... Qd8-d7

edit- Sorry, I'll shutup

Nb1-c3

This is tough to calculate. I wish I had a chainsaw to cut back that tree. All options so damn passive.

9... Nb8-c6

Hm. Not totally convinced of this, but all other options seem to have more possible blowbacks. Somehow I was not able to punish your queer opening.:stare: