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The number of legal positions after n plies
What is the number of legal positions after n plies for n=1 through 5? I know that for n=1 it is 20.
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Estimating probability of player playing move in the opening
For position you never played, book probability is perfectly fine for me. The question starts when you already played position x-times. I'm looking for function that will update book probabilities ...
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False calculation of chess moves
At the start I must admit that I am not the brightest chess player, so this just might be a stupid question but: Calculated Chess moves have been determined to be infinite, as I am given to ...
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How to calculate which opening move is modern
What approach would you recommend to calculate current tendency in opening position?
You have set of (move+year) values from games.
Amount of total games is unknown but will be somewhere between 1 ...
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Mathematical formula to get how broad opening repertoire is
programmers and mathematicians!
I'm looking for some opinions how to build meaningfull formula that represents broadness of opponent's repertoire.
At the moment I do it like this:
I filter all ...
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