Chess and mathematics
This page, which is currently under construction, will highlight a few ways in which mathematics creeps into the realms of chess:
- Combinatorics: There are about 318,979,564,000 ways of playing the first four moves of a game of chess. There are about 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways of playing the first ten moves of a game of chess.
Last updated April 25, 2001. URL: http://www.stormloader.com/ajy/chess.html For questions or comments email James Yolkowski. Math Lair home page