Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 10:37:00 01/10/03
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On January 10, 2003 at 13:20:04, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On January 10, 2003 at 13:02:50, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On January 10, 2003 at 07:24:39, Drexel,Michael wrote: >> >>>[D] 2K2B2/1r1n1n2/2B3Qb/2NnN3/nQnRnQn1/RbNqNr1Q/p1Q1Q1p1/3n2k1 w - - 0 1 >> >>White has made 7 promotions and Black has made 6 promotions. There are 31 units >>on the board, so only one capture has taken place. This is not even close to >>being possible. > >doesnt matter at all. It would afford much more time to create a solution with >most possible captures. 60 captures are enough to crash most chess engines. >only Ruffian is able to find a mate in one here so far. Okay, so apparently you have lost interest in your: "Uri might be able to find a legal move order to reach this position." BTW, I've crashed my computer by feeding some of the positions in this thread to Ruffian. Ruffian is great, but it certainly has a bug. It should reject such illegal positions rather than crashing.
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