HOW MANY MOVES THRE ARE IN CHESS? OR HOW MANY MOVES YOU CAN MOVE IN CHESS

source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6907018.stm

Researchers are now hoping to move on to even bigger problems. However, it seems that grand master of the board games - chess - may remain unsolved for some time.

It has somewhere in the range of a billion billion billion billion billion possible positions, meaning that computers, with their current capacity, would take aeons to solve it.