Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 04:30:11 07/20/04
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On July 20, 2004 at 07:02:43, David Rasmussen wrote: >Does anybody know a source for the claims that > >1) the longest possible chess game is some 6000+ moves. > >2) the average branching factor in chess is 35 (og 37 og 40 or...) > >/David The first is easy to deduce - every 50 moves a pawn must advance or a piece must be captured: (16 pawns * 6 squares + 30 pieces) * 50 = 6,300 moves. Dan H.
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