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Maximizing chess moves (Posted on 2009-06-11)

When the 8 chess pieces of one color (pawns excluded) are placed alone on the board in the standard starting position, 51 different moves can be made.

How can these 8 pieces be placed in such a way that the largest number of different moves can be made?

Submitted by pcbouhid

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Solution: (Hide)

The same found by Dej Mar with a rotation of the board.

Bottom up:

King at d2
Queen at b3
Bishop at d4
Bishop at e4
Knight at f4
Rook at g5
Knight at d6
Rook at c7

Total of different moves: 100.

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Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Thoughts	K Sengupta	2023-03-08 09:19:30
re: one more	pcbouhid	2009-06-12 13:51:55
one more	Dej Mar	2009-06-11 22:29:16
an arrangement of many available moves	Dej Mar	2009-06-11 14:20:09

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