{"id":2780,"date":"2022-02-01T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chessquestions.com\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T11:52:12","slug":"how-many-moves-are-in-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chessquestions.com\/how-many-moves-are-in-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Moves are in Chess? The Unfathomable One Novemtrigintillion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you are playing a chess game, how often do you consider the number of possible legal moves? Probably not too often, because the number is so astronomical that it’s hard to even comprehend. In this article, we will try to explain just how many possible moves there are in an average game of chess, and why the number becomes unfathomable very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A conservative estimate from the Shannon number predicts 10120<\/sup> possible moves in a game of chess with 40 moves for each player. That’s 10, followed by 120 zeros, at the lower end of possibilities, with that figure being potentially multiplied by double-figure options for every subsequent move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n