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#A chess term for the total number of moves in a game, counting each players move as 1. It is an optional part of the standard PGN description of a chess game.

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2004. Jaap van den Herik, Hiroyuki Iida, Ernst A. Heinz. Advances in Computer Games: Many Games, Many Challenges... Springer 2004, p. 216 ¹:
:Take note that if the side to move wins, the plycount must be an odd number, since that side makes the last move.

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