How many possible games in chess?

The insane combanations..

Author

Cool Ishu
April 30, 2025

Ever wonder how many combinations/types of games in chess?

Considering special moves and all the peices . Also consider the fact that by move we mean a play by both white and black( 20 moves would be 20 from white and 20 from black).Alright here is the data (represented in 2 ways).

Number of Moves (White + Black)

Approximate Number of Games (10^x)

1

10³

20

10⁶⁰

50

10¹⁵⁰

100

10³⁰⁰

200

10⁶⁰⁰

note how if you put it in the front and make the exponent 3 times the number of moves you can see the combinations.

Also note that these are just an estimate becuase in a single pair of moves there are only actually 400 possible moves.

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Oh yeah and also I am proud to announce that there are 2 winners of the program so far!!!