Stockfish is a top chess playing engine. We got to wondering how many possible Stockfish chess games are there if Stockfish plays against itself? Could it be that there are only a few stereotypical games? Or are there a lot of games?

To answer this we recorded Stockfish playing agains...

How Many Chess Games are Possible? Here is a fun question: how many different games of chess are possible? Counting the number of possible chess games is quite hard, as the numbers are large and chess board positions can be quite complicated. In this note we will try to estimate the number of possible short games of chess. Long games with many possibi...