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Subject: Re: How big should move list be?

Author: Paul J. Messmer

Date: 17:50:57 03/18/02

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On March 18, 2002 at 07:01:49, Travers Waker wrote:

>...  It's easy for
>captures, since their can only be 16 possible captures (if you allow capturing
>the king), but non-captures are not so easy, I think.

BTW, there can easily be more than 16 possible moves that are captures if you
construct the right position.  There can be a lot more in fact, depending on how
your program works.  A pawn promotion might generate many moves if you encode
the piece being promoted to in the move.  A single pawn on the 7th rank, not
itself blocked from promoting but forking two of the opponent's pieces, could
generate 12 capture moves all by itself.

-- Paul



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