What is the largest known number of possible moves in any chess position that a player can make at any single turn?
A possible board is shown here:
http://stevelord.net/chess_pi.pdf
White used its pawns to get 7 more queens and a third knight.
Here is each white piece and its possible moves. Total is 173.
Qa-20 Qb-23 Qc-18 Qd-23 Qe-20 Qf-19 Qg-21 Qh-19 Kh1-2 Kna8-2 Kng2-3 Knh2-2
Edited on July 21, 2018, 4:26 am
Attempt: 173 total moves
