Weird.
40 Chess Facts you did know about chess -_-
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I like how you analyze stuff and pay attention to all the little details to construct this post.
Sep 29, 2021
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SupremeChessMaster08 wrote:
I like how you analyze stuff and pay attention to all the little details to construct this post.
Thanks, I guess
Sep 29, 2021
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if you know the longest possible game, then have you solved chess?
if not, tell the computer to do repetitions on every move lol, that adds up two moves per turn.
I think the idea behind the longest possible game is 50 moves without a capture or a pawn move is a (claimable!) draw, so with 30 capturable pieces plus some number of pawn moves I roughly calculate to be about 100, 130x50 is 6500. I am estimating, probably some other limitations I haven’t thought of get you to their number.
Of course a draw is not automatic, someone has to claim it. By a strict interpretation of the rules the length of a game is infinite. But sticking to the draw claim is more interesting.
Of course a draw is not automatic, someone has to claim it. By a strict interpretation of the rules the length of a game is infinite. But sticking to the draw claim is more interesting.
Recently I found a total of 12+ "Interesting Chess facts you didn't Know" type of blogs on page one of a search I did of "Chess Facts"
4 of the blogs had the exact same "40 Chess facts you didn't know" which are linked here:
Another with very similar list of only 27 facts https://www.chess.com/blog/Mackenzie_banelchess/interesting-chess-facts
The one "Chess Facts" blog that had the most unique 'fact' was one where the full blog was copied from wikepedia:
https://www.chess.com/blog/Mayuri_Kurotsuchi/chess-facts
It seems like almost all of these posts (excluding ones that said facts about famous chess players) noted that we didn't know that the longest possibly game was 5949 moves long and that the longest 'official' game was 269 moves.
How many years until we 'know' these chess facts?
One fact that I don't understand: "There were 72 consecutive Queen moves in the Mason-Mackenzie game at London in 1882." This is part of the "40 facts you didn't know" list that can be found all over the internet (and we still don't know it) or in the 4 blogs above. /\
can someone show me the game with 72 consecutive queen moves? And what does this mean anyway? 72 queen moves in a row?