The advance in development is useful in the opening but given a completed perfect game I can't see how either one could win.
Of course, I've made a lot of imperfect moves in a lot of imperfect games, so maybe my opinion isn't worth much. :-(
The advance in development is useful in the opening but given a completed perfect game I can't see how either one could win.
Of course, I've made a lot of imperfect moves in a lot of imperfect games, so maybe my opinion isn't worth much. :-(
I think it would be a miracle if chess was anything other than a draw. Just think of all the openings that would all have to be wins for white. Then think of all the awesome defensive resources that appear in games even after you have made a mistake and are defending, and imagine if you could see these right from the start so you could aim for them and include them in your known drawn positions in your analysis. Then the real killer, the rook and pawn endgames. The vast majority of these would be drawn and could be aimed for as a defensive resource in a perfect game.
I don't know if it is conclusively a draw should both sides play perfectly. It depends on how the question is approached. One could say that White has the advantage because White moves first. Another could say that because White has to move first, the edge goes to Black since White's first move will weaken White's position somehow. Think about it. For example, take the move 1. e4. Once that e pawn goes e4, by rule that pawn can never return to e2 or e3. One of my favorite quotes from the late Bobby Fischer is:
"The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality."
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If both white and black plays the perfect moves, is the game drawn, or white always wins, since that 1st move advantage?
What do you think?