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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