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Subject: Re: Most number of possible captures?

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 04:08:22 01/10/03

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On January 09, 2003 at 21:53:35, Thomas McBurney wrote:

>I plan to start programming my quiescence search this weekend and I was
>wondering if any one has ever worked out a board position that has the most
>number of possible captures?  I would like to use it for testing.
>
>Thanks,
>Tom.

Nice problem to waste your time with.
what about this first try:

[D] 2K5/1r1n1n2/2B1B1Qr/2NnN3/nQnRnQn1/RbNqNb1Q/p1Q1Q1p1/3n2k1 w - - 0 1

63 captures. of course cou can almost always do better.
can anyone check if it is correct pls. Uri might be able to find a legal move
order to reach this position. :-)

• Sorry. second correction. 60 captures are enough :-) Drexel,Michael 04:24:39 01/10/03
  • Re: Sorry. second correction. 60 captures are enough :-) Ricardo Gibert 10:02:50 01/10/03
    • Re: Sorry. second correction. 60 captures are enough :-) Drexel,Michael 10:20:04 01/10/03
      • Re: Sorry. second correction. 60 captures are enough :-) Uri Blass 10:39:09 01/10/03
      • Re: Sorry. second correction. 60 captures are enough :-) Ricardo Gibert 10:37:00 01/10/03
• Re: Most number of possible captures? Ricardo Gibert 04:19:29 01/10/03
• Corrected version Drexel,Michael 04:17:18 01/10/03

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