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Subject: Re: Upper bound for number of moves?

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 06:53:47 04/20/00

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On April 20, 2000 at 04:35:09, Mark Ryan wrote:

>On April 19, 2000 at 15:05:17, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>
>>
>>In the latest issue of ChessBits is a position which seems to be hard to beat.
>>
>>N.Petrovic found it already in 1946. It has 218 legal moves for white,
>>apparently b2 was black's last move.
>>
>>[D]R6R/3Q4/1Q4Q1/4Q3/2Q4Q/Q4Q2/pp1Q4/kBNN1KB1 w - -
>>
>>Stefan
>
>Hi:  This is very strange - - this position looks like all of my games with
>Black.
>Mark :)

There is still hope as there are at least 10 ways to stalemate :-)

Stefan



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