A question for Chess Fanatics .......?

Question

There must be absolute limit to the number of different turns a game of chess can take. If one counted up all the possible legal moves open to each side, how many different games of chess can be played?

Answer 1

around 5 games.

Answer 2

sorry dude, don't know that one, but i do know that there are 100billion billion moves in checkers

Answer 3

A game a chess could infinitely go on with repeating moves.

Answer 4

Suppose you have an average of 30 options per move.  This is of course a rough figure and will vary as the game progress.  So even for *just* the first 10 moves for each side, there are 30^20 possible combinations,  

This is approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00...

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Answer 5

The longest tournament game ever played was something like 178 moves.  Technically the game does not need to end.