What is the number of possible chess moves in a chess game?

Answer 1

== == There are 20 possible opening moves in Chess. There are eight pawns and each pawn has two possible moves. There are two knights and each knight has two possible moves. e4 King's pawn opening (B00) d4 Queen's pawn (A40) c4 English opening (A10) Nf3 Reti opening (A04) f4 Bird's opening (A02) b3 Nimzovich-Larsen attack (A01) Na3 Durkin's attack (A00) h4 Anti-Borg (Desprez) opening (A00) f3 Gedult's opening (A00) E3 Van't Kruijs opening (A00) d3 Mieses opening (A00) c3 Saragossa opening (A00) a4 Ware (Meadow Hay) opening (A00) a3 Anderssen's opening (A00) Nc3 Dunst (Sleipner, Heinrichsen) opening (A00) Nh3 Amar (Paris) opening (A00) h3 Clemenz (Mead's, Basman's or de Klerk's) opening (A00) g4 Grob's attack (A00) g3 Benko's opening (A00) b4 Polish (Sokolsky) opening (A00)

Answer 2

There is no single limit to the number of chess moves in a game.
The beginners scorebooks are set for 50 pairs of moves, the regular scorebooks are set to 100. I've heard "about 60" as an average, but my games are usually a bit longer, at least when I'm notating. faster variants like lightning matches (G1:00) have much fewer moves.

Answer 3

There are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first 10 moves in chess

Answer 4

After white's first move, there are twenty possible positions. After black's first move, you have 400 possible positions. From there, the possibilities go on and on.

Answer 5

169,518,892,100,544,000,000,000,000,000.