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Complexity of Large Variants. Some comments about the complexity of large chess/checkers variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Andy wrote on Sat, Feb 24, 2007 02:35 AM UTC:
Not to be argumentive, but I believe two sets of capablanca pieces on twenty squares, minus one king, accounting left-right symmetry, gives 'only' 10,999,448,460,000 arrays. Calculated by 20!/(2*2*2*2*4!*4!*4!). One of the 2's in denominator is left/right symmetry factor.