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A133046 Starting from the standard 12 against 12 starting position in checkers, the sequence gives the number of unique move sequences after n moves. 2
1, 7, 49, 302, 1469, 7361, 36768, 179740, 845931, 3963680, 18391564, 85242128, 388623673, 1766623630, 7978439499, 36263167175, 165629569428, 758818810990, 3493881706141, 16114043592799, 74545030871553, 345100524480819, 1602372721738102, 7437536860666213, 34651381875296000, 161067479882075800, 752172458688067137, 3499844183628002605, 16377718018836900735 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

Duplicate captures (viz. the situation where a king can capture the same pieces in different directions) are counted separately.

REFERENCES

C. A. Pickover, The Math Book, Sterling, NY, 2009; see p. 512.

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..28.

A. Bik, Aart's Computer Checkers Page

M. Fierz, CheckerBoard

I. Korshunov, Title?

Jonathan Schaeffer et al., Checkers is solved, Science, Vol. 317. no. 5844, pp. 1518-1522, Sep 14 2007.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A133047, A055213.

Sequence in context: A188986 A146884 A113235 * A200783 A188868 A126639

Adjacent sequences:  A133043 A133044 A133045 * A133047 A133048 A133049

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

Jonathan Schaeffer (jonathan(AT)cs.ualberta.ca), Dec 27 2007

EXTENSIONS

a(12) - a(20) computed by Aart Bik and sent by Richard Bean (oeis(AT)okuvrumo.fea.st), Sep 18 2009

a(21) - a(26) also computed by Aart Bik (ajcbik(AT)google.com), with last two completed Sept 18 2012. Rein Halbersma was first to compute a(22). Murray Cash confirmed Aart's a(23) and a(24) results.

a(27) - a(28) first computed by Aart Bik (ajcbik(AT)google.com), Sept 2012. Paul Byrne confirmed Aart's a(23) through a(28).

STATUS

approved

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