Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:42:56 06/23/01
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On June 23, 2001 at 16:48:06, Oliver Roese wrote: >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 Got to be a different topic. No one has ever shown a position that had more than 255 legal moves. Nothing even close to that in fact...
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