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OCR: The Game Chess The game of chess is played with 16 pieces by each of the two opponents on a board of squares There are 400 different possible positions after one move each. There are 72,084 different possible positions after two moves each. There are over9 million different possible positions after three moves each There are over 288 thousand million different possible positions after four moves positions each The aftel one number move of distinct 40-move games is far greater than the number of particles in the universe possible move OF differe Working out a winning move at any stage is simple maths But as Claude Shannon, ter the father of information science pointed out in 1950 possible games number 10120 followed by 120 zeros). Even with computer calculating million moves per second it t ...