How many moves are there in chess!

i said 'moves' - not 'positions in a game'.

just the pure written down moves. (regardless of any position or game)

10 out of 11 answers wrong, bad or dumb.

{ and all those people may vote on election day }

o.m.g.

2,015,099,950,053,364,471,960

@CaseyReese said in #2:

See the Shannon Number: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number
wait
you are telling me by move 6 for white there are over 100 million possibilities?
well, there goes my plan for the advent of chess day 8 (i was gonna try to go through all the possible mate in 6s, i didn't think there were that many)

Confusing!

What are those

Confusing

@h2b2 said in #20:

most people in the world don't know how big chicago is and how much rain it gets.

I remember in the book, they provided an estimate. it was the numeral one followed by a large paragraph of zeroes. It might have been Irving Chernev's Fireside Book of Chess. Probably you have never heard of that one. :(

what are you talkin' about - that's got nothing to do with titlepost

Maybe Geography?

@SimonBirch said in #4:

1? There is usually 1 right move ..............
BTW there are more than one right moves in positional middle games and a lot of right moves in opening