Author: fca
Date: 03:15:42 08/17/98
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On August 17, 1998 at 00:07:31, Dan Newman wrote:
>On August 16, 1998 at 16:25:51, fca wrote:
>>Per Maerchenschach ... A.Dickins:
>>1. no promoted pieces, without promotion moves: 109 white moves (W.Cross 1967)
>>5k2/2K5/3N1B2/P1NB4/6Q1/4R3/P1PP1P1P/1R6 w - - 0 1
>I get 108 moves on this one. (I suppose W.Cross counted these by hand--I
>hope it's not my move generator...)
Ditto.
Q 23
2*R 28
2*N 16
BBS 12
BWS 11
K 7
6*P 11
---
108
I assume there was a typo when the position was transcribed by the original
poster, as I managed to get the total to 109 in a few seconds (no way Dickins
overlooked this) - just add another white pawn
5k2/2K5/3N1B1P/P1NB4/6Q1/4R3/P1PP1P1P/1R6 w - - 0 1
and you get:
Q 23
2*R 28
2*N 16
BBS 12
BWS 11
K 7
7*P 12
---
109
QED ;-)
Kind regards
fca
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