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Re: Are the number of variants to chess of Aleph nature or not?

by Ed Murphy <emurphy42@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 18, 2008 at 06:31 AM

David Richerby wrote:

> Quadibloc <jsavard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> The number of practical variants of chess that real humans can play
>> is strictly finite
> 
> Trivially: we only have a finite universe in which to store the rules.

Counterargument: infinite sets of variants can be encoded in a finite
description (e.g. arbitrary board length, as mentioned earlier).  Of
course, the set of variants we actually play is not as large as the
set of variants that (individually) we practically could play.

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2008-04-07 07:55:10

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2008-04-07 17:02:21

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2008-04-07 10:29:35

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2008-04-07 21:13:22

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2008-04-07 14:32:30

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2008-04-07 18:40:08

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2008-04-07 18:41:36

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

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2008-04-08 02:52:14

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

"Wlodzimierz Holszty

2008-04-08 18:40:16

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

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2008-04-10 21:41:57

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

"Wlodzimierz Holszty

2008-04-08 19:19:40

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

richardhutnik@[EMAIL PROT

2008-04-09 08:30:39

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

Quadibloc <jsavard@[EM

2008-04-09 10:48:53

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

Quadibloc <jsavard@[EM

2008-04-09 19:52:40

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

Quadibloc <jsavard@[EM

2008-04-10 06:37:15

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

richardhutnik@[EMAIL PROT

2008-04-10 09:20:24

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

richardhutnik@[EMAIL PROT

2008-04-10 09:25:59

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

Quadibloc <jsavard@[EM

2008-04-10 09:58:20

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

richardhutnik@[EMAIL PROT

2008-04-10 11:40:47

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

richardhutnik@[EMAIL PROT

2008-04-10 11:45:17

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

Quadibloc <jsavard@[EM

2008-04-10 16:53:17

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

Quadibloc <jsavard@[EM

2008-04-10 17:00:33

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

richardhutnik@[EMAIL PROT

2008-04-10 17:57:47

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

richardhutnik@[EMAIL PROT

2008-04-10 18:06:22

Is Calvinball Chess possible?

Guy Macon <http://www.

2008-04-11 10:36:26

Re: Is Calvinball Chess possible?

Quadibloc <jsavard@[EM

2008-04-11 05:54:04

Re: Is Calvinball Chess possible?

Rich Hutnik <richardhu

2008-04-12 22:00:55

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

Rich Hutnik <richardhu

2008-04-12 22:08:30

Re: Is Heraclitian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

Quadibloc <jsavard@[EM

2008-04-15 12:53:12

Are the number of variants to chess of Aleph nature or not? (was

Rich Hutnik <richardhu

2008-04-16 13:58:44

Re: Are the number of variants to chess of Aleph nature or not?

Guy Macon <http://www.

2008-04-16 22:48:49

Re: Are the number of variants to chess of Aleph nature or not?

David Richerby <davidr

2008-04-17 11:56:15

Re: Are the number of variants to chess of Aleph nature or not?

William Hughes <wpihug

2008-04-16 15:42:27

Re: Are the number of variants to chess of Aleph nature or not?

Quadibloc <jsavard@[EM

2008-04-16 18:58:13

Re: Are the number of variants to chess of Aleph nature or not?

jsavard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-17 03:40:18

Re: Are the number of variants to chess of Aleph nature or not?

David Richerby <davidr

2008-04-17 11:58:13

Re: Are the number of variants to chess of Aleph nature or not?

Ed Murphy <emurphy42@[

2008-04-18 06:31:26

Re: Are the number of variants to chess of Aleph nature or not?

David Richerby <davidr

2008-04-18 16:28:23

Re: Are the number of variants to chess of Aleph nature or not?

Rich Hutnik <richardhu

2008-04-17 22:43:40

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