Number of Different Ways to play First n Moves in Chess/Mistake

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Source Work

1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.):

The Dictionary
$8902$


Mistake

There are $8902$ ways of playing the first $4$ moves at chess.


This is in fact the number of possible ways of playing the first $3$ moves at chess.


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