Re: [math-fun] Chess problem

At 07:59 AM 8/23/2006, David Wilson wrote:

What is the largest possible number of plays by White from a legal chess position?

As a test, I checked the solutions of the 8-queens problem to see what the maximum moves there would be, since the queens don't block each other. The max there is 188 moves. Of course that isn't a compete position.