A famous chess player once publicly said that he could see 20 moves ahead during his chess game. This statement implies a chess player also seeing the 20 move responses of his opponent. Forgive me for saying but a calculation that small is unreachable for any known thoughtful being here on planet earth were we live.

So why is it so unlikely?

Average choices per move: In a typical position, each side has around 31–35 legal moves.

Game tree explosion: If we (roughly) say 30 options per move, then a 20‑ply sequence (10 moves for each side) has about:

30 (to the power of 20) = 3.5 × 10 (to the power of 29)….

possible paths. That’s an absurd number of possibilities.

Final answer in a decimalised digit equation

0.000000000000000000000000000002857

That’s:

2.8 octillionths of a percent

Functionally zero in any real chess players cosmic game mind

This number isn’t only small — it’s cosmically small. It’s smaller than:

The odds of randomly guessing a 10‑card poker hand

The odds of picking a specific atom out of a litre of air

The odds of winning the lottery ten times in a row

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