@5599
"chess is a forced draw by starting by assuming the conclusion that chess is a forced draw"
++ No. Evidence that Chess is a draw:
1) Expert opinions: Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Fischer, Kasparov, Kramnik, Carlsen.
2) AlphaZero autoplay: more time = more draws, even if stalemate = win
3) TCEC: forced openings to avoid all draws
4) Human top matches and tournaments
5) ICCF WC Finals: g games = d draws + w wins
And here he is again, adding the Fallacy of Excessive Extrapolation and the Fallacy of Appeal to Inappropriate Authority to the Fallacy of Appeal to Probability to come to the conclusion that chess is a draw. The most that is permissible is to say chess is probably a draw.
And of course the purpose of the use of this fallacy is to use the "fact" that chess is a draw for further invalid reasoning.
Try to learn something @tygxc, unless you are beyond the stage of life where it is possible to make new neural connections.
The idea that you the top three choices of an engine always include a best move is laughable.
Given that it isn't a proof but a strengthening of opinion, it's a reasonable project which, in the old days of science, would be accepted as that. There days, theorists have supplanted scientists to some extent. It doesn't really help because they just cover up their own mistakes. Take the Big Bang, for instance. Big heap twaddle.
Ignoring the last bit of irrelevant nonsense, that is correct. What @tygxc is trying to do is "strengthen his opinion". He wants a team of GMs and a few million dollars worth of computational resources to do so.
The problem is equating this with the rigorous solution of the game, like for checkers, connect4 and so on. It just ain't the same.