Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 13:14:24 12/07/97
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On December 07, 1997 at 15:16:51, Don Dailey wrote: >>Q6Q/4Q3/1Q6/5Q2/2Q5/R5Q1/3Q2NN/1R3KBk w - - ; 195 moves. >> >>I'm sure is improvable. >> >>Enrique > >Is this the 8 queens idea with some mods to make it legal? >Nicely done! Can we get past 200? How did you count them? With Fritz 5. Funny that Hiarcs doesn' accept it and Mchess 7 declares stalemate after computing 100 moves. >I'll post the best position my program comes up with by searching >from normal positions. Since my last post it has found a 68 legal >move position, but I think it will do better. > >Pehaps another useful thing would be to consider only positions that >are a subset of the opening position. In other words, only 1 queen >allowed, 2 rooks etc. We could define these as "normal" positions and >constructions like yours as "constructed" positions. It will be >interesting to see if we can get past 200 with constucted positions (I >believe we can) and past 100 with normal positions (probably can too.) Q6Q/4Q3/1Q6/5Q2/2Q5/R5Q1/3Q2NN/1R1B1KBk w - - ; 199 legal moves. This is 199 moves, but not 200. :( Enrique >Don
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