Author: James Swafford
Date: 07:23:06 05/09/05
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On May 09, 2005 at 10:04:41, James Swafford wrote: >I am glad you asked this question. I've always used 250 it's >worked out ok, but I've never proven to myself that 250 is a safe >bound. > >Is anybody using a hard limit > 250? Actually, I have a global move stack moves[MOVE_STACK] with MOVE_STACK #DEFINE'd as something like 20000. Not sure what I was thinking about above. :-/ > > >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?
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