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Shannon

The number of Shannon

a simple proof how deep chess can be

Claude Elwood Shannon (1916-2001) was a famous electrical engineer and mathematician who contributed to chess analysis. Besides important calculations, Shannon was author of many texts about chess and computers. He was the first one to calculate with precision the game tree complexity of chess