Enigma of chess

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Many of you must have played chess atleast once in life. Have you ever thought that there are more possible iteration of a Game of chess than Atoms in observable universe. Intersting Right! 

Let's look more into it~ 

 The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in chess is greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe. 

HOW!?

In chess, each player has 20 possible opening moves for their pawns and 16 possible opening moves for their pieces  leading to an expansive number of potential positions right from the start. As the game progresses, the number of possible moves for each player increases exponentially with each turn. The total number of possible chess games is estimated to be on the order of 10^120, a staggeringly large number often referred to as the Shannon number, named after Claude Shannon, a mathematician and computer scientist. This astronomical figure far surpasses the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe, which is on the order of 10^80 to 10^82


This comparison to the number of atoms in the observable universe serves to emphasize the extraordinary depth and intricacy embedded within the rules and possibilities of the game of chess.

I was mindblown when I came to know this, I'm pretty sure you also felt the same when you read this ! 


Next time whenever you play chess remeber this fact and make your and your opponents game more interesting 😉


Credits: Siddhi Satish Pawar, F.Y EnTC , COEP Blogs

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