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Subject: Re: Maximum number of moves (A question to Ed Schröder??)

Author: Oliver Roese

Date: 13:48:06 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

Ask Ed Schröder.
He once told, that a database that could not handle more than 255 moves per
position is buggy. Ask him why.

Oliver



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