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How many different ways can the first four chess moves (each side) be played?
288 billion
ways
288,000,000,000 exactly, give or take
288 billion — after just four moves each. Full games outnumber the atoms in the observable universe.SOURCEChess programming literature
Scale check: 288 billion is roughly seconds in 3,000 years.
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