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How many openings? (Posted on 2002-10-27)

How many possible openings are there in the game of chess, if we define an that opening consists of each player making their first 3 moves?

(With one move there are 400 possible openings)

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Puzzle Answer

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There are precisely 115,672,813 openings.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-06-29 23:31:33

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