Author: Flemming Rodler
Date: 16:35:51 04/20/00
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On April 20, 2000 at 09:53:47, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >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 There are 7 ways to mate, 13 ways to move a3 and 14 ways to move e5 so there must be 218-7-13-14 = 184 ways to stalemate. Tricky :-) /Flemming
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