Author: Chris Hull
Date: 09:47:51 06/19/03
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On June 18, 2003 at 23:45:57, Russell Reagan wrote: >What are some unsovled chess problems? > >By "chess problem", I do not mean finding the theoretical outcome of a position. >I'm thinking more along the lines of shortest stalemate, most number of legal >moves in a chess position, 8-queens problem, the Babson task, and things like >that. I know there are good guesses for the solutions to shortest stalemate and >move legal moves (shortest stalemate is probably 19 ply, most legal moves is >probably 218 moves), but they are not proven AFAIK. > >Are there other similar unsolved chess problems? Or maybe chess challenges is a >better way of putting it. Here is one I asked on rec.games.chess a long time ago... What is the longest forced mate (50 move rule doesn't apply), that can be legally reached from the starting position? Chris
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