Kenneth Sloan wrote:

samsloan wrote:

Even that is not obvious. There are 21 possible rolls of the dice (6!
= 21) and three possible positions of the doubling cube plus 24
possible slots for each checker.


BZZZT!

Are the checkers in your backgammon set marked in some way?


And, the relevance to computer chess is...???


Crosspost to rec.games.board, rec.games.chess.misc,
rec.games.chess.computer, rec.games.chess.politics
and rec.games.backgammon noted and contrasted with:

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| From: Kenneth Sloan
| Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.computer
| Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:04:09 -0500
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| Please don't cross-post.
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