Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 05:15:45 07/20/04
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On July 20, 2004 at 07:52:47, Peter Berger wrote: >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. > >Here is an interesting answer: >http://www.talkaboutgaming.com/group/rec.games.chess.analysis/messages/84631.html It says, "1 of these sequences is only 99 plies to so that black can start taking his turn making captures" which seems to me to be insufficient. I would expect that there must be more than one such 99 ply sequences. > > >> >>2) the average branching factor in chess is 35 (og 37 og 40 or...) >> >>/David
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