Longest Chess Game

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andrewjmen

I wanted to know how many moves a chess game could have...but there's a 50 moves rule ( you don't have to claim but then it can be infinite ), so there is a total of 6 moves per pawn * 16 pawns = 96 pawnmoves and there are 30 takeble pieces on the board so that makes 96 + 30 = 126 and 126*50 = 6300 moves. BUT a pawn can't get passed the opposite pawn without a pawn being taken or a pawn that takes ( which takes and is a pawn move ).

so my question is: What do you think?

M-a-x-i-m-u-s

All of them.Wink

TheGrobe

Assuming that a game would always be claimed as soon as it's possible under the 50 move rule:

http://blog.chess.com/kurtgodden/the-longest-possible-chess-game