XC (90) Chess Story

In chess there is something called the Shannon Number which basically says that there may be more possible chess games than there are atoms in the Universe. That is hard for me to wrap my head around, but that is what Claude Shannon the mathematician came up with.

A crazy big number of possible chess games that could unfold on a board of 8 X 8 squares. So what is possible for our lives? Can you imagine that more is possible than you currently think, and that maybe our idea of what’s possible is limited? I believe our potential is way greater than what we allow ourselves to be. If you underestimated how many possible chess games there could be, see if you can shift your thinking and open up what is possible in your mind for our lives while we’re here. I want us all to be the greatest versions of ourselves.

And if you have a young one who you want to teach chess to, I recently got hired by a company that teaches chess to children through storytelling. If you know a youth who might want to learn, feel free to send them my way alec3chess@gmail.com Our company teaches kids as young as three.