Every chess player knows chess is complex. Most chess players have a sense of just how complex. It has even been suggested there are more moves theoretically in chess than there are atoms in the universe.
Don’t be deterred. The reality is beautifully described by Stephen Westland on the discussion website Quora. He also happens to be an interesting academic and professor in colour science at the school of design at the university of Leeds.
I’m borrowing from Stephen’s calculations on Quora For what follows, with more about a position which came up recently at one of our league games,
First, he uses a real life example I show below. It’s so real life it is close to a position I saw in one of our the matches played recently. Maybe someone reading this remembers it ...