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There are estimated to be about 
 possible positions on a 
 board (Flammenkamp).
The number of 
-move Go games are 1, 362, 130683, 47046242, ... (Sloane's A007565).
References
Beeler, M.; Gosper, R. W.; and Schroeppel, R.  HAKMEM.  Cambridge, MA: MIT 
  Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Memo AIM-239, Item 96, Feb. 1972.
 
Flammenkamp, A.  ``A Short, Concise Ruleset of Go.''
  http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~achim/gorules.html.
 
Kraitchik, M.  ``Go.''  §12.4 in Mathematical Recreations.  New York: W. W. Norton, pp. 279-280, 1942.
 
Sloane, N. J. A.  Sequence
A007565/M5447
in ``An On-Line Version of the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.''
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/eisonline.html and Sloane, N. J. A. and Plouffe, S.
The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.  San Diego: Academic Press, 1995.