Talk:Los Alamos chess

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"Who gave the odds of queen?" What does this mean? Someone should fix this. Joshi27 04:36, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Board Position

The King and Queen on both sides are in opposite position to where they'd normally be (queen on own color). Is this correct for Los Alamos chess? TrooperScoop 21:14, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, see e.g. [1]. This is because the position is obtained from standard one by removing bishops and reducing board to a1-a6-f6-f1 squares. Andreas Kaufmann 19:42, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] solved?

How does the number of legal positions compare to chess? Has it been solved? Btyner 21:58, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

No, it has not been solved, and won't be for some time. According to my calculations the "Wirth index space" for 6x6 chess has 953,068,026,849,251,983,979,127,533,135 (9.5x10^29) entries. This is smaller than the number of physical positions, but is the effective size of the game since it takes in account board symmetries and other reductions. The comparable figure for regular chess is around 10^45. Johnmkominek 04:11, 28 January 2007 (UTC)