Contest: Find Position with the most moves

[Terry McCracken]

You said that you rather prefer not to see any compositions, I think this position has to be quoted anyhow.

[d]R6R/3Q4/1Q4Q1/4Q3/2Q4Q/Q4Q2/pp1Q4/kBNN1KB1 w - - 0 1
with 218 moves

Is it possible to top that? Probably not.

[marcelk]

Try this:

[D] 4r1k1/p4pp1/2n2n1B/2b5/N6Q/P2q1N2/1r4PP/R4R1K b - - 0 23

79 black move choices :D

Even if you only count high-level human vs. human games, this position is in chessbase:

[D] 1Q6/4Q3/k7/3Q4/3K4/3N4/8/8 w - - 7 75
81 moves

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[Event "Internet Section 07A g/8'+2""]
[Site "Dos Hermanas"]
[Date "2004.03.07"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Movsesian, Sergei"]
[Black "Volkov, Sergey"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2645"]
[BlackElo "2620"]
[ECO "C02 French, advance, Wade variation"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Qb6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. Be2 Bb5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. O-O
Bxe2 9. Qxe2 Qa6 10. Qc2 Nd7 11. a4 Rc8 12. Nbd2 Ne7 13. Qb1 Ng6 14. Re1 Nf4
15. b4 Bxf2+ 16. Kxf2 Nd3+ 17. Kf1 Rxc3 18. Bb2 Nxe1+ 19. Kxe1 Re3+ 20. Kf2
Qe2+ 21. Kg1 O-O 22. Bd4 Rd3 23. Qb2 Rxf3 24. Nxf3 Qxb2 25. Bxb2 Rc8 26. Rc1
Rxc1+ 27. Bxc1 a6 28. Be3 Kf8 29. Kf2 Ke7 30. g4 f6 31. Bc5+ Kf7 32. Bd4 h6 33.
Ke3 Nb8 34. b5 axb5 35. axb5 Nd7 36. Kf4 Kg6 37. h4 h5 38. g5 f5 39. Nd2 Kf7
40. Nb3 b6 41. Nc1 g6 42. Nd3 Ke7 43. Ke3 Ke8 44. Nf4 Kf7 45. Ne2 Ke7 46. Nc3
Kd8 47. Kd3 Nc5+ 48. Bxc5 bxc5 49. Ne2 Kc7 50. Nf4 Kb6 51. Nxg6 Kxb5 52. Nf4
c4+ 53. Kc2 d4 54. g6 d3+ 55. Kc3 Kc5 56. g7 Kb5 57. g8=Q d2 58. Kxd2 c3+ 59.
Kxc3 Ka4 60. Qxe6 Kb5 61. Nxh5 f4 62. Nxf4 Ka4 63. h5 Kb5 64. h6 Kc5 65. h7 Kb5
66. h8=Q Ka5 67. Qd5+ Kb6 68. Kd4 Kc7 69. e6 Kb6 70. e7 Kc7 71. e8=Q Kb6 72.
Nd3 Kc7 73. Qe7+ Kb6 74. Qb8+ Ka6 75. Nb4# 1-0