Subject: Chess Game: Minimum of 10 moves from starting position for stalemate
From: riacmt@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Carol Miller-Tutzauer)
Date: 1991-05-04, 09:42
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: riacmt@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu

In the current issue of Chess Life magazine, someone asked
"what legal setup of the original chessmen would allow for the
maximum number of mating positions against a lone King."  
In answering (person didn't know), but they happened to note
how many moves from starting position to get stalemate:

"The legendary Sam Loyd ('the puzzle King') devised a number of
similar problems, such as the number of moves to achieve
stalemate from the starting position (10).  Other teasers can
be found in THE PERSONALITY OF CHESS by Horowitz and Rothenberg
(Macmillan, 1963)."

Carol