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- From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
- Subject: Re: Chess Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.174545.23214@ima.isc.com>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:45:45 GMT
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- Here's a more advanced chessboard question.
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- A white king, a black king, and a white pawn are randomly placed on an NxN
- chessboard. (Independent, uniform distributions.) What is the limit, as
- N -> infinity, of the probability that the position is a win for white?
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- (Note that it doesn't matter what you do about collisions or illegal
- positions, since they occur with probability zero in the limit.)
-
- Karl Heuer karl@ima.isc.com uunet!ima!karl
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