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Subject: Mobility Records

Author: guy haworth

Date: 04:38:01 04/20/00


The "Guinness Book of Chess Records" notes the following records for mobility.
Unfortunately, it does not give the positions behind these records.  Maybe
others here can do that.

MAXIMUM MOBILITY

32 men in legal position (no promoted pawns) ...
    164 moves:  Oskar E. Vinje, Fairy Chess Review (1939)

A legal position, allowing obtrusive (i.e. 'created by promotion') force ...
    324 moves:  Nenad Petrovic, Fairy Chess Review (1946)

Maximum number of mates in one move ...
    47 moves:  Pollmacher, Schurig et al, Illustrirte Zeitung (1859)

MINIMUM MOBILITY

32 men in legal position ...
    2 moves:  Thomas Rayner Dawson, Chess Amateur (1923)

30 men in legal position ...
    0 (zero) moves:  Gustavus Charles Reichhelm, Brentano's Chess Mag (1882)

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