Hi all, another criteria to separate usual positions from unusual ones could be the number of occupied points. In Trice's formula you sum over the range 0..15 for m:
C(24,m) X D(m+2,15-m) X D(26-m,15) m being the (regular) points occupied by black. Now, how frequent is that black holds 15 points ? According to rough calculations (excel not having big integers), all the positions where black occupies 10 or less (regular) points are already less than 2^64. This can even be refined, as in the total there are positions where white occupies more than 11 points (and impossible positions, game over positions etc). Regards, 2010/5/25 Øystein Johansen <[email protected]>: > > Yes, this is the kind of position that will then need a special treatment. > Not really 'unlikely'? Maybe we should make a different definition of > 'unlikely'. Jon's idea is really good. Kind of like UTF-8. However, it's > still only of pure academic interest. > > -Øystein > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-gnubg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg > > _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
