From: Adam Lake <lake@evansville.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 19:23:32 PDT
To: Scott Collins <collins@newton.apple.com>
Subject: Re: How Many Games of Chess: Exact answer given!
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> 
> 
> The natural conclusion is that the complexity of the problem depends on how
> much of the game you consider to be the `endgame'.  Thus, the actual number
> of different chess games: 5
> 
>  2) White mates
>  1) Black resigns
>  0) Stalemate
> -1) White resigns
> -2) Black mates
> 
i am not sure this is a very reasonable question without any 
restrictions.  while this answer is humerous, i don't think anybody has 
addressed the fact that i can move a king back and forth between 3 
squares infinitely many times.  

POSSIBLE answer: uncoutably infinite?

lake@uenics.evansville.edu
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Isn't it nice to have only one simple question.....
Zero or One.
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