13 Feb
2004
13 Feb
'04
3:12 a.m.
.. and, trivially, there is a left-right symmetry to reduce the number of positions to 536,870,912 < 2^30. This is well within the range of existing endgame-table generators and doesn't even require 64-bit integers. I've forwarded the challenge for, at least, the brute force treatment. Guy