The Most Ramified Chess Position of 2023 (opens in new tab)

I spent some time considering words to describe a chess position with many legal moves. “Complex” doesn’t quite capture the situation since we would usually describe a complex position as one with many tactical interations. Ramified seems to make the most sense, as it describes “branching out”. 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 o...