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Author here! You are correct! It's White to move and White has 218 moves to choose from as their next move. My article proves that you can't do better than 218.

Oh no, I forgot to rename that variable before publishing, haha

Ah, I see the misunderstanding. I've always been solving the integer problem of course. But throughout the article, I improve the model formulation again and again through insights…

It's your turn and you have 218 moves to choose from. This is the best possible and the article proves this (assuming no bugs in machine or mind).

Author here, my motiviation was intellectual curiosity and some random Lichess reading about chess engine authors wondering whether 8 bit e.g. numbers 0 to 255 (or 1 to 256), will …

Author here, I considered but decided against the complexity, haha. I added a Github link towards the bottom of the article though. Code might not be pretty though .__.

Thanks for appreciating my article ^__^

Author here! Composing such a position is much easier than mathematically proving that there isn't a better one. Perhaps there is an elegant proof. Perhaps they had reasoning that …

Author here! Did you read the entire article? It's 271.666... moves, not 271.0 :) This bound comes from model where whole decisions (0 or 1) are relaxed to continuous ones (0.0 to …

Author here. The position is White to move, so even if the b2 pawn was not pinned by a white queen to the black king, it could not move. The b2 pawn is necessary to shield the blac…

Author here! Yes, if Gurobi and my code run as intended and I did not mess up any thinking while simplifying my chess model, then what I did is proof that the maximum number of leg…

Hi, author of the Lichess article here. relaxing and omitting chess rules also changed the choice of variables. I did try lazy constraints etc. before diving into the math, but the…

Hi all, a friend of mine pointed out that my article is being discussed in this forum. I am sorry for choosing a suboptimal title and I hope that it is unambiguous now. I am gratef…