Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:40:08 04/20/00
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On April 20, 2000 at 07:38:01, guy haworth wrote: >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) > this number seems wrong. Several have looked at this over the years, with a best number of something like 218 or 219. I have _never_ seen a position, contrived of legal pieces, where the mobility was that high... >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) > >G
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