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A048987 Number of possible chess games at the end of the n-th ply. 17
1, 20, 400, 8902, 197281, 4865609, 119060324, 3195901860, 84998978956, 2439530234167, 69352859712417, 2097651003696806, 62854969236701747, 1981066775000396239, 61885021521585529237, 2015099950053364471960 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Does not include games which end in fewer than n plies.
According to the laws of chess, the "50-move rule" and "draw by 3-fold repetition" do not prevent infinite games because they require an appeal by one of the players, but the "75-move rule" introduced on Jul 01 2014 is automatic and makes chess finite. - François Labelle, Mar 30 2015
LINKS
A. Bertilsson, Distributed Perft Project [also found a(11)]
James Grime and Brady Haran, How many chess games are possible? (Numberphile video), 2015.
Jakub Kowalski, Marek Szykuła, Experimental Studies in General Game Playing: An Experience Report, University of Wrocław, (Poland, 2020).
Wikipedia, Shannon number
CROSSREFS
Cf. A006494, A079485, A083276, A019319, A285873 (no queens), A285874 (no rooks), A285875 (no knights), A285876 (no bishops), A285877 (no pawns), A285878 (pawns and king).
Sequence in context: A009964 A285874 A007577 * A006494 A007545 A055476
KEYWORD
nonn,nice,hard,more,fini
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
a(10) from Richard Bean, Jun 02 2003
a(11) from François Labelle, Jul 25 2004, who thanks Joost de Heer for providing computer time
a(12) from Paul Byrne on Oct 24 2006, verified by S. J. Edwards on Apr 25 2011
a(13) from Paul Byrne on Nov 08 2011, verified by S. J. Edwards on Oct 03 2012
a(14) from Richard Bean on Jul 24 2018, value from Peter Osterlund and Ankan Banerjee
a(15) from Paul Barnett on Jul 04 2022, value from wikipedia page "Shannon number"
STATUS
approved

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