OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Chess diagrams are chess positions without regard to whether castling or en passant capturing is possible. The condition that the diagram cannot be obtained in fewer than n plies means that each legal chess diagram is counted exactly once in this sequence, indexed by the length of the shortest game(s) to reach it. Therefore, this sequence is finite and its sum equals the number of legal chess diagrams, estimated to be between 10^43 and 10^47.
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KEYWORD
nonn,hard,fini,more
AUTHOR
François Labelle, Mar 08 2012
EXTENSIONS
a(11) from François Labelle, Feb 27 2017
STATUS
approved