Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 18:48:46 07/21/04
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On July 21, 2004 at 05:41:37, David Rasmussen 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. >> I guess this comes from N.Petrovic (Sahovski vjesnik 1948). I have one book (Schach und Zahl) which reference to him with the number 5899 white moves. I quick search on the net only find other problems by him. >>2) the average branching factor in chess is 35 (og 37 og 40 or...) >> > Here you can make your own reference :) Create a program to count this and let it go through a big database of games. (Report back!) I think one in here have done this (Diepeveen?) allready. Odd Gunnar >Are there no formal or semi-formal references for these claims? > >/David
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