Eureka!

 

Hear this...There are in a Chess match around 400 different possible positions after one move each. There are 72,084 different possible positions after two moves each. There are over 9 million different possible positions after three moves each, and there are over 318 billion different possible positions after four moves each.

 

Now the good one is this, the number of distinct 40-move games in chess is far greater than the number of electrons in the observable universe!!!

 

The number of electrons is approximately 10^79 , while the number of unique chess games is 10^120 .

 

... And I love chess.

 

:-)

 

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