re: Tell me some random fun facts...

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There are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the visible universe

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In this vein, every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it is almost a certainty that the order of the cards in that deck would not match any other deck in the history of time or ever will be shuffled in the future.

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

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I mean. You can technically circle the board with some pieces. Not a good chess game, but you could do it. Seems like the number of possible chess games could be infinite.