
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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364. Even and odd chips. Place a stack of eight chips in the central circle, as shown in the picture, so that the numbers go in order from 1 to 8 from top to bottom. The task is to move chips numbered $1,3,5,7$ to the circle labeled ODD, and chips numbered $2,4,6,8$ to the circle labeled EVEN. Only one chip can be moved from circle to circle at a time, and a larger number cannot be placed on a smaller number. It is also forbidden to place numbers of different parity in the same circle at the same time. For example, you can place chip 1 on chip 3, 3 on 7, 2 on 6, or 2 on 4, but you cannot place chip 1 on chip 2, 4 on 7, since even numbers would end up in the same circle with odd numbers.

What is the minimum number of moves?

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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