How Many Chess Games are Possible?
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How Many Chess Games are Possible? Here is a fun question: how many different games of chess are possible? Counting the number of possible chess games is quite hard, as the numbers are large and ch…
  • FunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Our final estimate was that it is plausible that there are on the order of 10151 possible short games of chess.

    Thats a lot …

    How much time would that take? Given an average time for a game of chess

    • owenfromcanada@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 days ago

      If a quick game lasts 10 minutes, then 10^152 minutes, which is about 10^136 times the age of our universe.