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  1. What is the average length of a game of chess?

    Jun 26, 2013 · 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. …

  2. 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 …

  3. Is the number of possible chess games infinite?

    Jan 10, 2015 · 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 …

  4. How does one memorize a chess game? - Chess Stack Exchange

    Aug 1, 2013 · A single flashcard could be created by taking a screen shot of a particular game position and inserting it in the question part of a flashcard. The answer part will contain the screen print of the …

  5. Sherlock Holmes vs Professor James Moriarty, A Game of Shadow …

    The chess scene between Sherlock Holmes and Professor James Moriarty in the movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. What intrigued me even …

  6. How to balance the game for uneven players - Chess Stack Exchange

    Sep 20, 2017 · By the midgame, a typical Chess960 game looks like a regular chess game (except perhaps for some oddly placed pieces here or there). Ultimately it opens up like a regular chess …

  7. Longest chess game possible (maximum moves) - Chess Stack Exchange

    Oct 27, 2020 · 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 …

  8. history - Is there a "perfect" game? - Chess Stack Exchange

    10 To know that a game is "perfect", you have to solve the entire chess game space. What you're really asking is whether grandmasters have played a game where a computer would have played the same …

  9. Freely available PGN databases - Chess Stack Exchange

    Aug 24, 2015 · Simple formatted (no time indication after moves, etc), i.e. game info headers on top, followed by the moves, an example: (it doesn't have to contain all the headers of this example) Few …

  10. How to Verbally Describe Chess Moves? - Chess Stack Exchange

    Mar 31, 2013 · The point of using notation is to speed up the recording of the game, but can also be used during blindfold chess or over vent, skype, or some other voip technology. As such, saying "my …