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Subject: Re: Maximum number of moves

Author: Ralf Elvsén

Date: 02:16:08 06/23/01

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On June 23, 2001 at 03:59:50, Artem Pyatakov wrote:

>I have an interesting puzzle that came up with while I was starting to write my
>chess engine (it is related to how I will store generated moves)...
>
>First, I read somewhere that the average number of moves in the middle-game is
>about 35... Is this true?
>
>Second (and more interesting, but less practically important) What is the
>largest amount of legal moves possible from one side for ANY given position (no
>matter how bizarre)?
>
>Artem

This information was given by Andreas Stabel here at CCC 1999:

Record 218 moves for white:

[D] 3Q4/1Q4Q1/4Q3/2Q4R/Q4Q2/3Q4/1Q4Rp/1K1BBNNk w - -

He had also checked a huge number of games and the record in these
was 92 moves.

Ralf



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