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)

(In reply to Results by Cheradenine)

Cool! I didn't think anyone would actually code this one up...

So where can the code be seen? Do you have a link or something?

BTW, is the second number (in parenthesis) the time your program took to calculate it?

Posted by levik on 2002-10-30 17:43:44