tromp/ChessPositionRanking

Software suite for ranking chess positions and accurately estimating the number of legal chess positions

133 best points · 100 comments · 6 Hacker News posts · 183 GitHub stars · View on GitHub

Hacker News discussions

• The number of legal chess positions estimated at 4.5x10^44 – proof games wanted (133 points, 97 comments, by tromp, 2021-09-05)
• The number of legal chess positions is roughly 4e44 (5 points, 0 comments, by tromp, 2021-08-08)
• Help improve the estimated number of legal chess positions (3 points, 2 comments, by tromp, 2021-08-15)
• Chess Position Ranking (2 points, 0 comments, by Nydhal, 2022-05-24)
• Accurately estimating the number of legal chess positions (1 points, 1 comments, by ca98am79, 2022-12-23)
• Chess Position Ranking (1 points, 0 comments, by bebop404, 2023-11-06)