https://blog.lukesalamone.com/tags/data/ Recent content in Data on Luke Salamone's Blog Hugo en-us Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:38:39 -0700 https://blog.lukesalamone.com/posts/most-ramified-chess-position-2023/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:38:39 -0700 https://blog.lukesalamone.com/posts/most-ramified-chess-position-2023/ <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@4.4.3/dist/chart.umd.min.js"></script> <p><strong>I spent some time considering words to describe a chess position with many legal moves. &ldquo;Complex&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t quite capture the situation since we would usually describe a complex position as one with many tactical interations. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramification_%28botany%29">Ramified</a> seems to make the most sense, as it describes &ldquo;branching out&rdquo;.</strong></p> <p>The opening position in chess has 20 legal moves. From there, the number of legal moves in a position tends to increase as pieces move towards the center of the board, before decreasing as the number of pieces on the board drops in the endgame.</p>