How many games have been played on chess.com?

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Avatar of Zownds

So I was wondering, is there a way to see how many games in total have been played? because when you play a rapid game for example, the web link will look something like this 
https://www.chess.com/game/live/143938536700

where the number after measures into the billions. On the flip side, you can find rapid game links like this

https://www.chess.com/game/live/2

from 2009. 
This made me hypothesize, is the game link number the number of games in that time control played on chess.com? however upon further testing, I found that many of the links in the millions and billions are unconnected to any game, and send you back to the live Chess page. What do you guys think?

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Zownds wrote:

So I was wondering, is there a way to see how many games in total have been played? because when you play a rapid game for example, the web link will look something like this 
https://www.chess.com/game/live/143938536700

where the number after measures into the billions. On the flip side, you can find rapid game links like this

https://www.chess.com/game/live/2

from 2009. 
This made me hypothesize, is the game link number the number of games in that time control played on chess.com? however upon further testing, I found that many of the links in the millions and billions are unconnected to any game, and send you back to the live Chess page. What do you guys think?

You can't really go by the numbers as there are different numbering methods for different things. But the site has been running near 20 million live games per day for a long time and had exceeded that in 2020 for a while.

It's easily hundreds of billions.

Avatar of The_Light-Ray

Yea i think there's too many to keep track of, and if someone were to try, the tech might break or smth

Avatar of TetrisFrolfChess

Wow! That's a lot of chess.

Avatar of playerchess11111

if you are on a laptop, there is an incredibly big number at the top of the website thingy at the top. i suppose that could be it?

Avatar of playerchess11111

of course while you are playing a game of chess

Avatar of Martin_Stahl
playerchess11111 wrote:

of course while you are playing a game of chess

The game number isn't a good indicator of games played.

Avatar of Zownds

yeah

Avatar of Pudding

Whoa wont that take up a lot of storage

Avatar of ThrillerFan

6.02 * 10^23

Avatar of Zownds

probably