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Subject: Re: Record of number of captures?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 08:07:25 11/29/01

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On November 29, 2001 at 10:29:47, Joshua Lee wrote:

>It would be interesting if someone can find a position with the most captures
>from an actual game. Also if this position is level so as to see what any
>program would do not necessaraly to find a tactic.

You've may have heard of this record site:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm

I can't find this particular record, but they have one I thought wasn't
possible: Greatest number of castlings: 3 ???
Can a king really castle twice?

>In the Nolot Test Set there are some positions with less possible moves than the
>others yet take longer to reach the same depth so finding the most captures and
>most possible moves wouldn't necessarily mean that a position was the most
>complex.

BTW: it's constructed, but I belive it is legal with 45 captures.
[D] 6k1/3nQn2/2Q1nR2/2N1Qr1Q/q1QNnR2/1nNrQn1Q/3NK3/8 w - - 0 1



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