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Subject: Re: Winboard Question

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 00:58:52 06/25/03

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On June 25, 2003 at 03:14:02, Dann Corbit wrote:

[D]3qk3/8/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w - - 0 1

>Those knights must sure have been busy.

Haha, you bring up an interesting problem. What is the least number of moves to
reach this position? Here's my attempt, 52 plies. (suprisingly, Winboard STILL
adds the castling rights: 3qk3/8/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQ - 0 27).

[Event "Edited game"]
[Site "RUSSELL-ATHLON"]
[Date "2003.06.25"]
[Round "-"]
[White "-"]
[Black "-"]
[Result "*"]

1. Nf3 e5 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nxe5 c6 4. Nxd5 Be7 5. Nxc6 b6 6. Nxa7 f5 7. Nxc8 h6
8. Ncxb6 Nd7 9. Nxa8 Nb6 10. Naxb6 Rh7 11. Nxe7 Rh8 12. Nxf5 Rh7 13. Nxh6
Rh8 14. Nxg8 Rh6 15. Nxh6 g5 16. Na4 g4 17. Nxg4 Qc8 18. Nc3 Qd8 19. Rb1
Qc8 20. Rg1 Qd8 21. Ra1 Qc8 22. Rh1 Qd8 23. Nb1 Qc8 24. Ne5 Qc7 25. Nf3 Qc8
26. Ng1 Qd8
*

• Re: Winboard Question Peter Fendrich 01:38:09 06/25/03
  • Re: Winboard Question Uri Blass 02:16:17 06/25/03
    • Re: Winboard Question Peter Fendrich 09:46:38 06/25/03
    • Re: Winboard Question Peter Fendrich 08:49:53 06/25/03
    • Re: Winboard Question Russell Reagan 02:25:28 06/25/03
      • Re: Winboard Question Uri Blass 02:48:16 06/25/03
        • Re: Winboard Question Vincent Lejeune 03:04:38 06/25/03
  • Re: Winboard Question Russell Reagan 01:57:55 06/25/03
    • Re: Winboard Question Uri Blass 02:20:38 06/25/03
  • Re: Winboard Question Dann Corbit 01:48:56 06/25/03

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