Chess will never be solved, here's why

I mean, you aren't expected to understand anything and our semblance of communication is for form's sake.

@6595

"A hypothetical super power chess computer running at insane speeds might claim, prior to making its first move: Mate in 2,212,598,303,505,004,977"
++ No, that is mathematically impossible. There are only 10^44 legal positions, most of them nonsensical. After a search of width w candidate moves with depth d moves we reach w^d positions, assuming we reduce w to avoid transpositions.
This gives the following maximum depths for various widths:
width depth
2  148
3    93
4    74
5    63
6    57
7    52
8    49
9    46
10  44
11  42
12  41
13  40
14  38
15  37
16  37
17  36
18  35
19  34
20  34
Any checkmate in more than 148 moves must consist of forced moves only and by both sides.
The hypothetical super power chess computer running at insane speeds can only state, prior to making its first move: 'I offer a draw, because it is a draw'.

Is this, "Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width"?

I feel my post #6600 works equally well as a joke and as a statement of fact. It is only a shame that it was not post #6660.

So it isn't a statement of fact, any more than my claim is. Both claims are based on opinion concerning which facts are correct.

i dissagree about the statement

computers will likely solve chess in 10 years

solving  by meaning it will play the game perfectly from start to finish

the game will never stop being played though .. that statement is more correct

Thanks but that's been shown to be impossible.

Yeah well 200 years ago going to space and driving a car was too..

Not driving a car, obviously. But solving chess requires too much computing. It's been discussed in very great depth in this and other threads and apart from tygxc who believes it can be solved in five years, we think it might take millions of years at present computing speeds. That's actually being generous. You can work out how many games need to be solved, although of course there's redundancy.

Regarding the car, railways have existed since, I think, the late 1500s. By the 1700s, static engines were commonplace to draw wagons along the railways. It wouldn't be a big leap to imagine cars and horses and carts existed.

First railway line was 1825.

No, you're hundreds of years out.

I seem to remember they were first used in France in the 1500s. Perhaps you're thinking it has to be steam locomotive driven.

I decided to find out where you got that from. So I Googled "first railway line" and I got this, which seems to have been written by an ignoramus.

<<The first railway line in the world dates back to 1825, when George Stephenson connected the towns of Stockton and Darlington in England by rail. The line was intended to transport coal. The wagons were pulled by steam engines. Passengers were transported by horse-drawn carriages.

1. The early days (1830-1835) - Train World>>

I think that was the first steam-hauled commercial line but railways had been in use for about 250 years industrially.

It's a matter of what you call a railway. I recall learning about the first railways at school (one of the few things from history that stuck) - the Stockton and Darlington railway, in Victorian times. I did have to look up the date. That referred to mechanically powered, public railways, as most people imagine them. Horses pulling trolleys on rails are not really the same thing.

Wikipedia answers the question you were considering: "The oldest known, man/animal-hauled railways date back to the 6th century BC in Corinth, Greece."

I have to say that from my limited experience of Greek railways in the late 20th century, they probably got less efficient over the intervening period. Being several hours late was the norm.