There are more possible chess games than atoms in the observable universe.

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Claude Shannon estimated the number of possible chess games at around 10^120. The observable universe is estimated to contain about 10^80 atoms. Even a computer checking a billion games a second since the Big Bang would not get anywhere close.

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