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Subject: Re: Maximum number of moves

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:27:50 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?

In a human game sure, but i have measured what DIEP gets in the
average middlegame and that's of course computer nonsense, but
it's exactly 40 there.

>
>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)?

around 218 or so.

>Artem



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