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by throw-qqqqq 298 days ago
> There are more legal games of chess than atoms in the universe

I’ll make an even stronger assertion:

There are more legal chess games in 40 moves or less, than there are atoms in the universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4165/are-there-...