Shannon number
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title:
Shannon number
text:
The Shannon number, named after the American mathematician Claude Shannon, is a conservative lower bound of the game-tree complexity of chess of 10ⁱ⁰, based on an average of about 10 possibilities for a pair of moves consisting of a move for White followed by a move for Black, and a typical game lasting about 40 such pairs of moves.
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Estimate of number of possible chess games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number
date created:
2006-03-29T23:26:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T18:56:44Z
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