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paskalnikita

Hello! I have one simple question . Is it possible to create database of ALL possible chess combinations? I mean does some company (like IBM) have list of all 10120 chess combinations? Thank you!

MayCaesar

I'm afraid our Universe is too small for a list this size to fit in it. sad.png

dannyhume
Do you even know how many combinations there can possibly be?!? Hundreds, literally hundreds.
hairhorn
MayCaesar is correct, the number of distinct chess games is larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe.

The number of legal board positions is smaller, although easily bigger than the number of atoms on Earth.... so again you have a storage problem.
Aguy27
Well, it depends on how much coding you can fit into 1 list and how much lag is acceptable. I think it would actually be possible to do this, but we'd probably have to use hundreds of lists, maybe less or more, to have all the chess games.
Aguy27
BobbyTalparov wrote:
Aguy27 wrote:

Well, it depends on how much coding you can fit into 1 list and how much lag is acceptable. I think it would actually be possible to do this, but we'd probably have to use hundreds of lists, maybe less or more, to have all the chess games.

Knowing there are more games than atoms in the known universe, how exactly do you think you would store such a database?

Sure, there's more games of chess then atoms in the universe, but with lots and lots of lists, i'm sure we can fit all of them. Sure, it would take a extremely long time, but it's probably possible.

paskalnikita
mickynj wrote:

I may be wrong, but I think the OP was asking for something like "a database of all possible combinational themes or patterns," not a literal list of all the possible combinations of pieces

i mean it will be enough to create smt like that: 1...d5 2.Bb2 c6 3.a4