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The Game-tree Complexity of chess is now evaluated at approximately 10123 (the number of legal positions in the game of Chess is estimated to be between 1043 and 1050). As a comparison, the number of Atoms in the Universe , to which it is often compared, is estimated to be between 4×1078 and 6×1079.

Another comparision is the game of Go ; the Number Of Possible Go Positions is calculated at 2.1×10170.


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  • Mathematics and chess

  • [http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/schachzahl2_e.html The biggest number of simultaneous possible legal moves : the composition of Nenad Petrovic by Reinhard A. Scharnagl]