Timeline for What proportion of chess positions that one can set up on the board, using a legal collection of pieces, can actually arise in a legal chess game?

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Aug 11, 2013 at 20:27	history	edited	The Masked Avenger	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 1158 characters in body
Aug 11, 2013 at 9:06	comment	added	The Masked Avenger		Of course I would now think of a 7 piece cage in a corner, giving perhaps an additional factor of 100 for 28 pieces
Aug 11, 2013 at 5:31	comment	added	The Masked Avenger		Even wihout the consideration of fewer pieces, these 29 piece arrangements give at least twice as many positions as what you calculated for the 32 piece multiset. I think once the multisets are computed, we will find many fewer legal games than domotorp predicts.
Aug 11, 2013 at 5:19	comment	added	The Masked Avenger		I hope this recent edit affirms your faith. I suspect this forum can prove bounds to within a couple of orders of magnitude from the actual number.
Aug 11, 2013 at 5:16	history	edited	The Masked Avenger	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 5957 characters in body
Aug 10, 2013 at 0:31	comment	added	Joel David Hamkins		I awarded you the bounty, in appreciation for your efforts; thank you very much!. I hope that you will carry through the details as you indicated. I continue to think that we can hope for some definite good bounds with the right calculations and the right way of thinking about it.
Aug 10, 2013 at 0:29	history	bounty ended	Joel David Hamkins
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Jul 30, 2013 at 16:35	history	answered	The Masked Avenger	CC BY-SA 3.0