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Dear Colleague,

Welcome to our journal newsletter for ICGA Journal (ICGA). We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 44, Issue 2.

The content from this new issue is included below as well as details on how to submit your research to the journal.

With kind regards,

Editors-in-Chief

Tristan Cazenave

Acting Editor-in-Chief

Editorial: Chess, ludemes and trees

The first contribution to this issue is An Upper Bound for the Number of Chess Diagrams without Promotion by Daniel Gourion. It shows that the number of legal Chess diagrams is less than 4×10³⁷ which is an improvement on the previous upper bound of 2×10⁴⁰ by Steinerberger. The trick is to define a graph on the set of diagrams and to classify pawn arrangements.

The estimation of the number of Chess diagrams goes back to the seminal paper of Shannon in 1950. This is related to the work of Tromp on the number of legal Go positions. Tromp also recently investigated the number of legal Chess positions with a randomized algorithm. The code written by Gurion to compute the upper bound is available....

Call for Papers

As a member of the computer gaming research community, we would like to invite you to contribute your own research articles to the journal. Authors are requested to submit their manuscript electronically to the online submission system. Please note that the manuscript should be uploaded as one file with tables and figures included.

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