Chess will never be solved, here's why

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Quantum computers may solve it in the future.

Both reported. I just wish they would ban you rather than mute you.

I'll tell you if you like.
I've been very interested in computing for a long time. Used to be very interested in programming but not now, because what is important is overall design of online facilities.
Before too long, politics, at least at one level, will be carried out online, at least in its public manifestations. To do that it would be necessary to keep people like you away from where serious discussions are carried out and still maintain a semblance of democracy. In that scenario, obviously you and people like you shouldn't and wouldn't be allowed anywhere near vulnerable people who may be attempting to use what to them is quite a risky and stressful method of discussion.
So how do ringfences work and how should they work? How can they be designed to maintain a feeling of democracy and fairness but also keeping undesirable people out? This is more suited to the Politics Thread by Soup Sailor but you asked the question here.

Secondly, what can't be done and must not be done is to give any one person or small clique of people overall control of who can be admitted to groups discussing political issues. The case in point was illustrated by the UK Labour Party campaigns for Leader of the Opposition a few years ago, when groups in support of particular candidates for the Labour Party leadership were infiltrated by people opposed to the aims of the groups. And when they had taken over, they started throwing people out of them. That was Facebook. I much prefer the system of controls they have here in chess.com and I think we can learn from them and potentially improve them.

Arguing differing points of view is not trolling. Getting mildly upset over being disagreed with is not trolling either.

Post #9206, and the previous few by the same poster is trolling.

Oh hello, how are you? I noticed that you were banned last time you were here, a few days ago. It looked like you filled about four pages with the same words. Whatever was that for?

The "kid" on the other thread is probably NOT a kid. At any rate he doesn't communicate like one and he is rude and disrespectful. Yesterday he made a disrespectful remark on the thread I did last year when Queen Elizabeth II died. He also did some other stuff .... quite enough to make me pretty sure that you and he seem very similar to one another. Strangely similar. You are an obvious troll.

Like two days? But didn't you know that if you do stuff like that you'll get banned because the easiest way to get rid of that kind of spam is simply to ban the person concerned? If you want to stay this time, are you going to do the same thing? You were getting enough name calling by announcing yourself whenever you came back after doing whatever.

Well in that case, before I accept your friend request I'll just sit back and watch you do things differently for a while, if that's alright. As you can see, we have a problem with trolls.

71 isn't old by modern standards. I'm physically younger than most people of 60 so there's no need to be ageist. Interesting that you can write in English when you try. Next, I want you to act in a reasonable way to others. When you can do that and not make spiteful attacks, you'll be ok and people will respect you.

So if I miss an easy mate-in-three combination but don't make a mistake serious enough to cause me to lose by force I have "made a good move"?

Agreed, so that's why I was questioning the other poster's "improved" definition of "perfect play".

In the context of playing moves that don't lose or perhaps you'd rather that you'd made a perfect move? People just can't grasp logic here.

There is no perfect move in the majority of possibilities during a game. It is similar to the art of war. For every weapon there is a defense. For every defense there is a new weapon.

As far as the topic is concerned, I agree with the OP fifteen months ago although I might have worded it differently.

To wit:

So can chess be solved? If it is as a competitive sport where one side must, win, then it has already been solved. Every possible BEST move in chess has been deduced long ago. 

If chess is a meaningless set of moves, with no goal in sight, then sure, chess will never be solved. 

Don't worry. Anyone whose comments are as sneaky and basically malicious as his are is a troll. He's been lurking around here for a while waiting to pick a fight with someone. I don't think anyone likes him.
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I genuinely hope that you become ok and liked by people here because at the moment after the first visit there are some who think you're a troll. All you have to do is try not to break the rules, try not to get angry and probably don't post any more adverts for your club because you can be muted for that. See you around and thanks for sticking up for me.

checkers has been solved though (checkers played perfectly is a draw)

Yes, in the example I cited I would have.preferred to have found the "perfect move" that would have actually WON the game rather than played something that just didn't lead to a forced loss.

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It's a given, though, that you can never make a move that wins the game if the opponent hasn't already made a move that loses it. If that does happen, the situation changes and a good move is anything which preserves the win.