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- What is the average length of a game of chess?
Indeed, the 277 move game was played in a tournament on the Internet Chess Club Oddly enough, I found that the average length of a game (played by humans) is roughly 40 moves Based on the statistics provided by the Chessgames database (685,801) games, the average number of moves is 40 04
- Is the number of possible chess games infinite?
The average number of legal moves in a position is around 35, and the average length of a chess game is around 40 moves = 80 plies, so an estimate of the number of "rational" chess games is 35^80 = 10^123 As for the total number of legal positions, it's somewhere between 10^40 and 10^50
- Longest chess game possible (maximum moves) - Chess Stack Exchange
What is the longest chess game possible in terms of chess moves? I read somewhere that there is a theoretical maximum of 5949 moves But I don't see any proof and I don't think it is correct Can
- rules - What is the correct placement for the . . . - Chess Stack Exchange
Facing the chessboard, the Queen should be on the fourth square of the first rank (row) and the colour of the Queen should be the same as the colour of that square (If the colours are different, rotate -90 or +90 degrees the chessboard ) The King of a given color is on the square immediateley next to the square of the Queen of the same color and that is not taken by a light piece
- strategy - Is chess a solved game? - Chess Stack Exchange
32 Chess is a zero-sum game of limited decisions The number of possible moves at any given point, and the number of possible states of the board, are all finite Tic-Tac-Toe, is one of the easiest examples of a solved game I can't remember how many years it's been since I last lost a Tic-Tac-Toe match Does any such "optimal strategy" exist
- What is the average number of legal moves per turn?
This number increases in the middlegame and then decreases in the Endgame Are there some calculations on the average? Google search seem to be focused only on "average number of moves per game" Would appreciate if somebody have some links to some scientific researches or also blog posts
- Good resource for annotated games - Chess Stack Exchange
I'm finding annotated chess games very handy to increase my level of chess knowledge Are there any recommendations on good online resources for annotated games? I've found a few, but the annotati
- With only a king left, how many moves remaining until a draw?
I am a beginner in chess If I have only a king left, how many moves does my opponent have to mate me?
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