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  • I was curious about the orders of magnitude of atoms, chess games, and chess positions, so I looked it up (note that the Chess.com employee said “chess games”, each of which involves a complete sequence of moves, while Musk said “legal chess positions”, which is very different.)

    • There are approximately 10^120 possible chess games.
    • There are approximately 10^80 atoms in the observable universe.
    • There are approximately 4.8 × 10⁴⁴ unique legal board positions.