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Subject: Re: How many possible moves in one position?

Author: Jari Huikari

Date: 13:03:05 12/07/97

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On December 07, 1997 at 15:37:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>the average is pretty well documented as being 38.  I know that the
>max is over 200, because I had a move generator limit of 200 at one
>point in Cray Blitz and Harry Nelson found a way to break this with
>some odd problem position from Dr Lazlo Lindner...  I believe that
>position hit 212 or something similar...

Thanks!

Do you remember what has been max in actual games? Have you seen e.g.
positions where number of legal moves was over 100? Or over 80? ...

So far my program can only play actual whole games against an
opponent. I have used a limit of 200 in it.

					Jari



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