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Community-driven effort to explore the complexity of chess (grandchesstree.com)
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The Grand Chess Tree is a distributed volunteer computing system that counts how many possible move sequences exist up to a given depth in a game of chess. Since chess is a branching game—each move creates new possibilities. At depth 1, White has 20 moves. At depth 2, there are 400 possible positions. By depth 3, it’s 8,902. Then 187K, 4.8M, 3.2B…

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