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The article itself doesn't arrive at the correct number of 5898 moves, but some of the commenters do. At my own page http://tromp.github.io/chess/longest.html h
by tromp 9y ago
The article itself doesn't arrive at the correct number of 5898 moves, but some of the commenters do. At my own page http://tromp.github.io/chess/longest.html http://tromp.github.io/chess/longest.html you can play through a 3-moves-shorter game.
- ramshorns 9y agoIt seems like the alternating of irreversible moves makes the 5870 shorter than it could be. The pattern of (49.5 + b) + (49 + w) + (49.5 + w) + (49 + b) + … could be replaced with several moves in a row by black, then several in a row by white, allowing some of the 49s to be 49.5 instead. Is that where the discrepancy comes from?
- tromp 9y agoYes, that would explain most if not all of the 56-ply discrepancy. In the game on my page you can indeed see black making irreversible moves on move 50,100,150, ... 450 and white's first irreversible moves comes only at move 500.