Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 01:38:09 06/25/03
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On June 25, 2003 at 03:58:52, Russell Reagan wrote: >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 >* [Event "Edited game"] [Site "D8126"] [Date "2003.06.25"] [Round "-"] [White "-"] [Black "-"] [Result "*"] 1. Nf3 g5 2. Nxg5 a5 3. Nxf7 e5 4. Nxe5 a4 5. Nxd7 a3 6. Nxa3 b5 7. Nxb5 Ra7 8. Nxa7 c5 9. Nxc5 Nd7 10. Nxc8 Ngf6 11. Nxd7 Ne4 12. Nxf8 Rg8 13. Nxh7 Rg5 14. Nxg5 Nd6 15. Nxd6+ Ke7 16. Nde4 Ke8 17. Nc3 Ke7 18. Nf3 Kf8 19. Nb1 Ke7 20. Ng1 Ke8 * I think it can be done better and earn maybe two more moves to 18 moves or so. Maybe 17 is possible? /Peter
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