Author: Scott Gasch
Date: 22:18:20 05/08/05
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On May 08, 2005 at 23:44:31, Andrew Shapira wrote: >What's best known (the smallest) upper bound on the number of legal moves, taken >over all chess positions? An obvious bound is 9*7*4+2*14+2*14+2*8+8 = 332. >This comes from 9 queens, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and 1 king. Is a >better bound known? Somebody once posted this position which found its way into some of my move generator test code. I don't know if there positions with more possible legal moves though. [D]3Q4/1Q4Q1/4Q3/2Q4R/Q4Q2/3Q4/1Q4Rp/1K1BBNNk w - - 0 1 Scott
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