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How many openings? (Posted on 2002-10-27) Difficulty: 5 of 5
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)

  Submitted by James    
Rating: 3.5714 (14 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
Original solution:

"a LOT! you will HAVE to use a computer program to figure this one out or spend years trying to without using a computer"

Of course, this being perplexus, we did use a computer:

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  Subject Author Date
Puzzle AnswerK Sengupta2022-06-29 23:31:33
re:levik2002-10-31 10:53:46
Hints/TipsNo SubjectCheradenine2002-10-31 04:56:37
re: ResultsJames2002-10-31 02:50:05
re: Resultslevik2002-10-30 17:43:44
Hints/TipsResultsCheradenine2002-10-30 06:49:01
re: Also...levik2002-10-29 03:50:45
Also...Dulanjana2002-10-29 02:22:01
re(2): En passant?levik2002-10-28 16:36:51
re: En passant?friedlinguini2002-10-28 13:51:43
En passant?Dulanjana2002-10-28 13:37:09
Programminglevik2002-10-28 13:26:30
re(4): confusedfriedlinguini2002-10-28 11:06:13
re(3): confusedlevik2002-10-28 10:28:33
re(2): confusedCheradenine2002-10-28 08:33:24
re: confusedlevik2002-10-28 04:14:57
QuestionconfusedCheradenine2002-10-28 00:58:31
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