Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:41:53 04/20/00
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On April 20, 2000 at 08:40:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... maybe I misread this? IE is this mobility for _both_ sides combined, or just for one side? > > > > >>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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