75? I doubt that. Martin Gardner (sixth book): If eight chess pieces of one color are placed on the board as shown in Figure 39, a total of exactly 100 different moves call be made. According to T. R. Dawson, the E~lglish chess problemist, this question was first asked in 1838 by a German chess expert, h1. Bezzel. His solution, the one shown here, was publishecl the follo\ving year. In 1899 E. Lantfau, in Der Schclchfreutzd, September, 1899, proved that 100 inoves is the maximum and that Bezzel's solution is uniclue except for the trivial fact that the rook, ~,n the seventh square of the fourth row fro111 the top, could just as well be place<]. on the first square of that same row. I managed to add pawns to get up to 139 moves. .nnbbrr. PPPPPPPP ...N.... ......R. ...BBN.. .Q...... ...K...k ..R..... Ed Pegg Jr. Joshua Zucker <joshua.zucker@gmail.com> wrote: My friend Jeff Sonas, of http://www.chessmetrics.com among other things, tells me: I don't think I've ever seen something about the most possible moves. Tim Krabbe's "Chess Curiosities" site is fascinating if you haven't seen it; he says the most in any known position was 75.