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But before we come to it, there is another well-known very large number in chess: when the inventor, Sissa ibn Dahir, presented the wonderful new game to his king, the grateful monarch wanted to know how he wished to be rewarded for his invention.
Games with more than 60 moves are rare, and on average there are 30 legal moves in each position that is on the board. This means there are 30120 possible games. Naturally the vast majority of these games is blatantly nonsensical. But the fact remains that it is 10180 different games.
Now this is a number that has absolutely no relevance to anything in our real existence. The number of elementary particles in the hundreds of trillions of stars in the known universe is unimaginably smaller.
We start by setting up a computer that plays through a million (reasonable) games per second, and task it with do this for a hundred tredecillion (1080) games. After starting it we we walk across to the Sahara. There we pick up one grain of sand. This we transport to Arizona, crossing the Atlantic in a row-boat, and toss the grain of sand into the Grand Canyon.
Mind you, we are very slow walkers, and require quite some time for each step we take. Similarly, we are very slow rowers, and each oar stroke takes a great deal of time. Transporting this single grain of sand takes a hundred years.
As soon as the grain is in the Grand Canyon, we begin a second task. We walk over to Mount Everest and carve out a teaspoon-full of it. This we transport, at the same speed (a teaspoon per century), to Canada. There we deposit it on the ground. Then we return to Everest for a second teaspoon full. And we continue doing this until the entire mountain is standing in Canada. After this we reverse the process, moving Everest, teaspoon by teaspoon, back to Nepal. Once this is completed, we return to our computer. Has it played through the 1080 games, running at a million games per second? Nowhere close!
Now, we walk and row back, at the same breath-taking speed to Africa. We pick up a second grain of sand in the Sahara and transport it to the Grand Canyon. After this, we go back to Mount Everest and transport the entire mountain, teaspoon by teaspoon, to Canada, and then back to Nepal. Only then we are ready for the third grain of sand. We keep doing this, one grain of sand at a time, and after each grain we move the entire Mount Everest back and forth, until the Grand Canyon is filled with Saharan sand.
Now we proceed to do the reverse: we return all the sand, grain by grain, back to Africa. And between two grains we transport Mount Everest with a teaspoon to Canada and back. We do this until the Grand Canyon is empty. I grant you it takes a very, very, very long time.
In terms of the Sahara and Everest, we are back to square zero. To make a note of this, we take a sheet of paper, one square meter in size, and use a pencil to make a dot in the top left-hand corner. Then we proceed to repeat the entire cycle: filling the Grand Canyon, grain by grain, emptying it again, and between two grains we move all of Everest, teaspoon by teaspoon, and return it to its original place. When the cycle is complete we make a second dot on the paper, next to the first. After this we repeat the procedure: a first grain of sand, all of Mount Everest back and forth, a second grain of sand, etc. We keep doing this until the entire paper is filled with dots. Has the computer now at last finished playing through at least a few tredecillion games? Not yet!
So we repeat the entire process with a second sheet of paper, and when that is filled, with a third, and a fourth, putting one sheet on top of the other. We keep doing this until we have a pile of paper sheets that reaches the moon.
Then we start erasing the dots, one at a time, filling and emptying the Grand Canyon, dismantling and reconstructing Everest after each grain of sand, before erasing each dot. Slowly we are getting tired.
What is the purpose of this deeply outlandish story? It is to give you a faint impression of what really big numbers mean. Saying there can be 1080 possible games of chess is probably a bigger deal than you could ever have imagined.
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Hi all,
I have a database of games in chessbase, saved on a cloud.
At times I want to add a new game and place it near the top of my list.
I can drag and drop it there and it seems fine at first glance.
However, whenever you're adding a game in your database, chessbase assigns it a number; and it automatically keeps sorting my games according to those numbers (ie chronologically) whenever I restart the program.
Is there any way to stop that from happening?
Is there a workaround to put the game where you want it to be?
It would be very useful when working on the openings; new variants are to be placed right next to their connected lines...
I have re-tried to activate it many times, but each time the message says "SerialNumber already used", and then it also says "You can now open database files by double-clicking them in Windows". And "CBase 12" stays at "No".
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