Fun Fact: First Ten Move Possibilities

According to facts.330.ca (beware pop-ups), there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves of a chess game.  That's:

one hundred sixty-nine octillion, five hundred eighteen septillion, eight hundred twenty-nine sextillion, one hundred quintillion, five hundred forty-four quadrillion

I found the name for that last part, so it may be slightly incorrect, but anyway... that's a lot of possibilities!

That's one of the reasons chess is a terrific game.

I think I've lost to all of them...

Wooooooooooooooooow

Those are my thoughts in 1 word.

Now calculate it for go ;)

wow...

impressive

look up graham's number

LOL!!!!!!!!

i use only 10 of them thats all

lol??

LOL, no way! Me too. Except it changes a little from game to game.

Anyway, that's a lot of possibilities, but it's what makes chess an enigma and so fun to play.

Does any super computer able to calculate all of the first ten moves

Then you must be araound 100^50 (100 to the power of 50) years old

wow

now imagine the first 1,000 moves

dwf