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Subject: Re: Lots of best moves

Author: Les Fernandez

Date: 11:17:07 03/01/05

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On March 01, 2005 at 13:53:34, Dann Corbit wrote:

>The opposite of a good test move (one best move choice) is one with lots of
>equally good winning moves.  I was playing around, analyzing some Orangutan
>games and stumbled on this position:
>[D]1Q6/8/2K5/3NQ1p1/8/8/5k2/8 w - - acn 2564; acs 0; bm Nc3 Ne3 Qb1 Qb3 Qb4 Qb5
>Qbb2+ Qbh8 Qc3 Qc8 Qe3+ Qe4 Qe6 Qe7 Qee8 Qf5+ Qf8+ Qg3+ Qh2+; ce 32762; dm 3; pv
>Qf5+ Kg2 Ne3+ Kg1 Qf1#;
>
>Which made me wonder,
>In a real game, what is the most ever equally good (DTM) simultaneous best
>moves?
>
>19 equal mates in 3 is interesting, but I wonder if there has ever been (for
>example) 100 best moves leading to mate in some minimum distance.

Hi Dann,

This sounds interesting! Let me think about it.

Les



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