Is Chess Something We Can Solve?

It isn't solveable by any method at the moment.

How come you say you are something like a second year maths student and yet you spend your time trying to support the likes of dodgy maths teachers? Somehow it doesn't seem realistic. Why aren't you talking to your friends? Why are you the only one of your type, hanging out with a bunch of aged trolls on Chess.com instead of doing what's normal for you? In other words, you don't seem real.

You don't know enough to determine whether tygxc is right or wrong. You are about the level in university maths which I attained before I switched to philosophy.

ah yes, optimissed. baseless insults instead of actual arguments. what's great is that I don't even need to warn people about you, your posts have so little substance to them people figure it out almost instantly on their own.

Considering how middle school math topics stumped you in other threads, it's a *little* hard to believe that your maths education is what you say, as well as the fact that not a single math topic that you've presented or interacted with has gone beyond the early highschool level. You might have studied maths into colelge, but that doesnt mean that I (and others) didnt learn your "university" maths in middle school or highschool.

I'm not even writing this out as a defense of myself. I feel no need to defend myself from you. I am writing this because I feel you yourself need to know how you are considered by myself and others.

Nobody thinks tygxc is a valued member of the community. In fact, given how prolifically he posts bullcrap, and the tendency for many of chess.com forum posts to come up as google results, he has likely stunted the growth of more young chess players than nearly anyone else on the website.

Funnily enough, not only is pfren still here, but he has already posted on this topic under his new account.

Nice to know - which is?

@Mazetoskylo

I thought his comparing Pfren to Tygxc was hilarious given that Pfren eviscerated Tygxc when he first posted his premises...

oh really? was that on the megathread?

Thanks.

Probably, but it could have been on the Ponz thread or the previous "Will computers solve chess?" thread.

You won't get a different approach unless you identify the trolls that operate on the other thread and block them all. Otherwise you'll get exactly the same thing.

There's no "different approach" to be found, nor would blocking the reasonable/sane people and leaving the crackpots give the OP any viable answers.

Perhaps your time is better spent bumping some other threads and getting them locked...?

they can also 'identify' O. @Optimissed.
And know that he mainly does 'you and me' stuff - that that's why he's here.

The trolls are identifying themselves. You can get rid of them.

No-one worthwhile will post here with these people posting.

MEGA is correct. O 'needs to know'. And O is Optimissed.
But O operates in a zone whereby if enough people don't 'figure it out on their own' temporarily - then he can and does live in that zone.
His 'nirvana' that he makes his life mission - is to get opening posters to block anybody who opposes him - and to get the chess.com staff to mute anybody who does too.
Been his 'life's work' for ten years now. On this website.
But Result Instead: O gets blocked by some of the best posters and himself gets muted by chess.com including twice very recently.
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In the latest installment - he finally took a self-imposed rest for three days - absolutely essential for him to avoid three mutes in a row by chess,.com.
Why mention?
Even though posters can figure him out on their own - he gets temporary 'advantage' by them getting blindsided for a while. Especially people unfamiliar. Or kids.
Why doesn't he and people like him just make their own forums and block whoever they don't like?
Because then they don't get to complain and be masochistic is why.
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and now - the forum topic.
Why is it shifting here from the other 'never be solved' forum?
the opening poster there doesn't have an account.
For another - a new forum creates some new approach and new dynamics.
For another - new opening posters get to put the forum topic and questions their way.
And many prefer that to just continuing with the same forum.
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Is it a great topic?
The short answer is yes.
Because it pertains to the game of chess as a whole.
Part of putting it in perspective.
And is relevant to how it was designed and evolved.
The most popular indoor game of all time?
Well - cards is popular too but that's often for money. And is usually a group game.
How is the most popular indoor one-on-one game in world history designed?
What was in mind?
Chess didn't start with any one person.
It evolved into its current form.
In western europe. (although its predecessors started in India)
The development of chess in its modern form was centered in France - which was also the geographically central country in the development of math and science.
For hundreds of years - all the greats in math and science were born and lived and operated in France or in very nearby countries. Until the 1800s when America entered that picture too.
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And computers have helped it - instead of hurting it.
Chess was designed and evolved - to Not be solved.
And before computers too.
And tygxc has already admitted that it can't be solved with current technology.
So the discussion over the last two years has revolved around 'solving alternatives'.
In other words - what actually happens.
And other interpretations of 'solving'.

He's probably an alt.