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Technically speaking, it would require ~ 4.8 * 10^44 pages to cover all legal chess positions [1]. But they're happy to serve utterly illegal positions like https://chess.maxmcd.com/rnbqkbnr/qqqqqqqq/8/8/8/8/QQQQQQQQ/... as well.

[1] https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking



The above illegal position example was a checkmate in one, this one is more fair: https://chess.maxmcd.com/rnbqkbnr/qqqqqqqq/qqqqqqqq/8/8/8/QQ... ;)





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