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Subject: Re: Most number of possible captures?

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 23:28:28 01/09/03

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On January 09, 2003 at 23:57:08, Thomas McBurney wrote:

>>yes, a 96 x 1 dimension array for legal moves, I dont know exactly where the
>>number comes from, but I have never seen it break in real games.
>>
>>I use it as my tree, 96 x depth array, to hold the details of the tree as I
>>traverse it.
>
>
>I have my program set to 220 for legal moves.
>
>Wack this position through your chess program and let me know how it goes!
>http://www.rescon.de/Compu/schachzahl2_e.html
>
>I tried this on a number of chess programs and a surprising number of them
>crashed or made stupid moves.  Fritz 4 crashed with a stack fault.
>
>Cheers,
>Tom.

Well ... I just tied the record of 218 moves - slightly different

[d]R4Q2/3Q4/1Q4Q1/4Q3/2Q4Q/R4Q2/pp1Q4/kBNN1KB1 w - -



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