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Black Swan. Pieces are replaced by Black Swans with unpredictable outcomes. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Florin Lupusoru wrote on Thu, Feb 22 11:00 AM UTC:

People might not appreciate how great this game is until they start calculating the Setup permutations. I tried that with ChatGPT but the AI would crash every time. 

Here is my humble attempt. 

There are five possible outcomes for each player.

1) Zero Black Swans

2) One Black Swan

3) Two Black Swans

4) Three Black Swans

5) Four Black Swans

In the case of Zero Black Swans for each player we have 30 factorial = 2.65e+32.

If we calculate for the Black Swans we might get a number bigger than the total chess permutations.

This is incredible!

Also, remember that there are eight Black Swans in the game, four for each player.