[Retros] 2512 dead in one set, more than 300000 or million in others. Yefim 09/02/2004

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             Hello, Yefim.
   1.  My corrections for example of moving knight (repeat below)
4k3/8/1b6/4p1p1/3pP1P1/2pP1BRB/2PpB1P1/3K1B1N w - -
 is 2512 dead positions.
Calculations: (16*19+18*18)*2*2=2512, where 16 is amount of light squares for 
BK,
19 is amount of dark Squares for BB, 18 amounts of darks squares for BK and 
BB at the same time.
The first 2 is for 2 possibilities for WN, the second 2 shows that all 
configurations are to be multiplied (turn's move).
2. It is strange to refer to 1.3 or 9.6 rule (below)
9.6  The game is drawn when a position is reached from which a checkmate 
cannot occur by any possible series of legal moves, even with the most unskilled 
play. This immediately ends the game. 
  My arguments.
           There are even more dead position in some sets.
 For example.
In dead set with position
4k3/2b5/8/p1p1p1p1/P1P1P1P1/8/2B5/4K3 w - -
304704 positions and if we add WB will be more than million.
Do you know how many "series of legal moves" are possible here?:)
Googol, googolplex, gugolsplash :)) may be very small for comparison. Who 
will show
all series? Player? Director? Convention of mathematicians?
It should be omitted because there are may exist dead positions requiring
very deep reasoning... Let players continue a game...:( :)
 Yefim 09/02/2004
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