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Subject: Re: Maximum Legal Moves

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 16:16:49 08/12/99

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On August 12, 1999 at 17:24:59, Ratko V Tomic wrote:

>Thanks for the figures. Are these the best figures
>found so far or the exact maximum numbers?

They are unproven.

The following assumes you want to know this because you are writing a program of
some sort.

If what you want to do is figure out how many moves it will take to store an
index into the legal move list for a particular position, assume that you need
8.

I have seen over 100 in real games, and I haven't looked very hard, so it's
probably unsafe to store this in 7-bits (signed 8-bit value).

bruce



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