How does the number of possible games of chess compare with the amount of chess games ever played?

Question

Obviously all figures involved are going to be guesswork, but at what time in the future will it be statistically likely that any chess game played will have been played before..........?

Answer 1

In reference to the # of possible chess games vs. the number of atoms in the known universe, this is said to be true.

The number of possible chess games is on the order of 10 to the 120th power, while there are only about 10 to the 79th power atoms in the known universe.

There's no way of knowing how many chess games have ever been played, but it's nowhere near the number necessary to have played every possible chess game. There aren't nearly enough people in history nor hours in human history to play that many games, even if playing chess was all anyone ever did.

Answer 2

there are an enthinity of different chess games, (more grains of sand in the world, more atoms than in the univers). this is because games could consist of pices moving different places and eventually movin somewhere else which has no benifit of winning. hope this helps

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Answer 3

No but I've played games of chess where I felt I WAS the teddy bear.

Answer 4

This will give you an idea of the huge numbers involved. If you were to put a grain of rice on one square, double it to two grains on the next, four grains on the third, and keep doubling every square, there would not be enough grains of rice in existence to complete the task to the 64th square

Answer 5

While in theory, if one knew all possible games, one could always win. But to play all possible games, at one game a minute, would take (if I remember the number correctly) 64 thousand years. That's a time investment that's hardly worth the pay-off.

Answer 6

A grandmaster once told me there are more positions on a chessboard than atoms in the universe.

Answer 7

Anthony T - There would be 18,446,744,073,709,600,000 grains of rice on the last square. Now that is one huge chessboard!

Answer 8

like 1 to infinity

Answer 9

i would say 250