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Community Blog Discussions - There is no reachable chess position with more than 218 moves.#79

legal = legally reachable is a generally accepted definition. If you want to change the definition: good luck.


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Community Blog Discussions - There is no reachable chess position with more than 218 moves.#75

Okay, but then you're using a "quick-check" definition of legality to discern it from reachability. The generally accepted definition is that a position is called legal if it can be reached by legal m…


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Community Blog Discussions - There is no reachable chess position with more than 218 moves.#73

Legal but not reachable...I'm not sure what you mean...If you can't reach a position from the starting position, it's not legal.


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Community Blog Discussions - There is no reachable chess position with more than 218 moves.#8

"218 is the maximum number of possible moves in a legal position" would have been a better title. As some people seem to be confused and think you're stating that every legal position can be reached i…


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Community Blog Discussions - More Than Just Opponents: The Barriers Women Face In Chess#50

@svensp said in #44: > Of course it's possible that people with brown hair are generally better at water polo than people with red hair. It's possible that people who are exactly 1.82m excell at chess…


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Community Blog Discussions - More Than Just Opponents: The Barriers Women Face In Chess#38

@HBT722 said in #9: > Judit Polgar was the result of a educational experiment, reducing social contacts and activity from very early childhood on. This cannot count in respect of possible abilities of…


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