math and chess

hi. I am a student, fifth year in scientific highschool, Italy.

I am prepairing a work on chess, for my final exam. Writing about history, art, and english literature.

I am quite in a hurry about math..i was thinkink about jhon nash and his "theory of games", but maybe there are some other arguments realted with math. any help? or suggestions? :) thanks

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hi cattanidenno,

do you know how many numbers there are ?  however many you would like to create.    there is no problem, you create the problem.

wtf? anyway..i dont know if you really got the question...i was asking for arguments related with math. that's it...the only decent stuff i found is about nash..but as i already said..even if it's interesting..it's pretty general..it doesnt concern JUST chess...but it's still the best argument for the moment...

Research how engines work, it's all about computational math.

you mean stuff like computers that play chess? :)

..that's computational math?

Lots of good stuff in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6aGwsfJDwc

thank you! :)

Math used to be the most difficult subject for me. But, here I am busy with MPRE Practice Questions all day long. I miss the old days a lot though. Now, there is a lot of pressure as scoring well is the priority than just passing the exam.

A chess player just needs to be able to count up to nine.

Not sure if it helps, but there are 10^120 chess game possibilities (although this number is disputed, many arguing it could be higher or lower) and the amount of atoms in the observable universe is 10^80.

Chess + math: game theory,  lines,  parallel lines,  in general geometry ,  permutation with respect to combinations,  spacial and linear geometry, squares and rectangles....