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Estimate the max length of chess game under WFCC?
The World Federation of Chess Composition (WFCC) has a Codex that specifies how the FIDE Laws apply to chess problems.
Can you give a ballpark estimate of the length of the longest game possible under ...
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If repetition loses, who wins KvK?
Suppose we're playing a version of chess where you lose if you repeat once an earlier position (position = arrangement of pieces + who's move it is). We're down to the wire, and we've just arrived at ...
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EXTENDED New Year's Math Riddle: 5-fold repetition & 75-move rules
This puzzle extends Rewan Demontay's New Year Math Riddle.
Rewan asked (essentially): if the players co-operate, what's the largest number of times a given diagram can occur in a game before reaching ...
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A New Year's Math Riddle
Here's a fun and clean riddle for the New Year! I found the material for it on Krabbe's site. I will provide the link when it is solved.
How many times can this position be repeated, with both sides ...
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What's the maximum number of moves that can result in a threefold repetition from an arbitrary position?
Assume that the fifty-move rule does not require a player to claim a draw. Instead, the game is automatically declared a draw if no pawns have been moved and no pieces have been captured in the last ...
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