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Subject: Re: Possible chess moves.

Author: Lyn Harper

Date: 03:48:03 05/20/03

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On May 19, 2003 at 15:59:12, Angelo Ciavarella wrote:

>There are more possible chess moves BY FAR! than there are ATOMS in the
>universe.Click on this link for an interesting explanation of chess computers
>work.
 That's the number of possible moves during the course of a full game. But in
any given position there is a limited number of moves.
  As an exercise, work out the number of possible chess moves that exist. You'll
find there are something like 2850 or so, for each side. I worked it out years
ago, can't recall the exact number.



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