Chess Universe Size: Why Brute Force Fails! #shorts

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]In the end, it looks like, according to Claude Shannon, there are about 10 to 100 to the 120th leaf nodes down there. And if you're going to do the a British Museum treatment of this tree, you'd have to do 10 to the 120th static evaluations down there at the bottom.

[00:00:21]If you're going to see which one of the moves is best at the top. So, if all of the atoms in the universe were doing static evaluations at nanosecond speeds since the beginning of the Big Bang, we'd still be 14 orders of magnitude short.

[00:00:39]So, the British Museum algorithm is not going to work.