Does math dictate chess?
Re the O.P., it depends on the type of position, which affects things like piece mobility and the availability of weak squares to attack, whether there are passed pawns to be pushed etc. What you're discussing is what chess engine programmers have been gradually figuring out for a century or whatever.
A chess player who believes he hasn't invoked mathematics is wrong .... counting moves in a promotion race is maths. So is calculating the optimum squares for pieces, where they affect the highest number of other squares, for instance. It's all maths but the human mind sometimes finds it better to work by more approximate methods and sometimes it needs to calculate precisely, according to circumstances.
You heard the size of the earth? So what? Calculate it yourself.
Of course it's possible to solve chess, lol.
But you say it will be solved? That's so dumb I stopped reading there, at the end of where I quote. Don't bother replying either, I wont read it (I won't come back to the topic).
Being new on this site, I will have to research how to block sammi_boi from my discussions and play. He may play good chess, but resorting to personal attacks when his side of the argument fails isn't what I would expect from a good player. Okay, he is now blocked (very easy function) It seems he goes out of his way to be abrasive, based on his thread "Mods are effective".
lol you do realize that Deep Blue only won because Kasparov let it... was just a money making thing. ...
Anyone who thinks Kasparov ever let anyone or anything beat him in a match doesn't know the first thing about Kasparov the chess player.
Literally.
The first thing people should know about Kasparov is that he was the ultimate fighter. He never let anyone win.
Kasparov was psyched out by the computer though. So much so, that he resigned a game in a drawn position, and in another game played an opening he knew was bad because he couldn't believe an engine would play the refutation which involved sacrificing material for the initiative. He was wrong.
But if you think he threw the match, you don't know the first thing about Kasparov.
lol... you think that anyone would make it known. Before he is a fighter... he is smart. Resigned in a game that was drawn because he was psyched... rofl. A fighter wouldnt get psycked by a machine. Ofcourse no one will admit to any of this but I have met Kasparov and the man knows how to make get what he wants. Everyone wants moeny. I think they paid something like a million bucks for him to play it twice... You saw what he did after the first match. He destroyed that ting in the second. And thats after it had improvements made too... Ofcourse anything could have happened sure, but the smart move is to make the money play there. But hey, I dont know anything
s23bog, yep.
Kasparov immediately started complaining about the match, wanting to look at the computer's logs, and so on. IBM acted quite suspiciously, denying him that information and then pulling the plug.
I wonder if somewhere in the bowels of IBM's archives there exist the computer logs for the match. It would still be interesting reading.