[d]8/8/3P1P2/3PkP2/3P4/8/8/K7 b - - 0 1MahmoudUthman wrote:yes , I forgot about pawns of the other side but how can you get 5 pawns touching the king without at least defending one of their own ? plus if you add any other piece it will defend more pawns so 4 pawns seems to be the maximum , right ?AlvaroBegue wrote:I see what you mean, but I don't think it's quite right. The opponent could have a different material configuration, and then the king can capture at least five things (five pawns).MahmoudUthman wrote:I think that in the configuration (2R,2B,9Q,2N,1K) that you used a king can only have a maximum of 3 captures (1R , 1B ,1N , Touching it without defending each other).AlvaroBegue wrote:Rooks and bishops can capture at most 4 things, and every other piece can capture at most 8 things, so 4*4 + 12*8 = 112 is an upper bound.sasachess wrote:I add my question: what is the maximum number of capture moves?
Of course, you wouldn't have that many black pieces left if the pawns were arranged like that.
Without funny pawns, you can still capture 4 knights.