In chess what is the most possible moves available to choose from?

When you start a game of chess white has 20 moves available to choose from (2 for each porn and 2 for each knight), then black also has 20.





What is the most moves it is theoretically possible to have available to choose from?|||Thank you for your question.


The most moves that have been found in one position is an amazing 218 moves helped by the fact that white has nine queens on the board - not likely but theoretically possible.|||. C. Flye St. Marie was the first to find the correct number of positions after four moves: 71852. Dawson (1946) gives the source as Intermediare des Mathematiques (1895), but K. Fabel writes that Flye St. Marie corrected the number 71870 (that he found in 1895) to 71852 in 1903. The history of the determination of the chess sequences is discussed in Schwarzkopf (1994).