Chess will never be solved, here's why

You would be the expert on that.

Troitzky gave a very comprehensive, but still incomplete, solution of the White wins under basic rules only. He didn't solve the Black wins. He would have almost certainly failed the White win in 108 against Syzygy from the position I posted here under competition rules.

Tablebases completely solve both White and Black wins under both basic and competition rules (though weakly and from only nodes with no repeated 9.2.2 positions in the latter case).

Thanks for paper showing that Alpha Zero considers there to be a bare minimum of 4.5 candidates per move in classical chess (figure 11, page 23). Handy for refuting you.

Again, I am genuinely curious how someone who literally rejects mathematical logic is challenging anything. give specific examples.

i would be genuinely surprised to find that tygxc cited a single source that did not directly contradict at least one of his claims.

if theres a finite # of moves ?...itll get solved one day. not counting 3-folds. and possibly including 1000+ move games (so long as one sides improving...). its not like SHA-256 where theres a infinite # of permutes [then one day the 10^77 (decimal) permutes gets maxed (and assuming no collisions along the way)].

Or night.
The main factor to 'solving chess' isn't the algorithms or software - nor is it the available money - nor even the amount of man hours put in - nor even the number of years of computer time!
Its the processing speed of the computers.
The Speed.
The speed of the Hardware.
Determines both if and when chess could theoretically be solved.
If its going to take trillions of years - the sun would have engulfed the earth long before then or various other cosmological events would have 'put the kibosh' on the project. Or both.
Or even just extra-major nuclear war on earth.
No more project.

Someone who can't tell the difference between finite and infinite is probably not the sharpest tool in the box.

As I said.

Narcissism is a problem for you in situations like this because, unlike balanced people, you are unable to comprehend that the knowledge and understanding of the entire mathematical world for a century or so is enormously superior to your own.

If you did want to start to catch up (and had the capability to do so - this seems unlikely, since you are having problems even with the simple distinction between finite and infinite cardinality) any authoritative source would be able to help.

Cardinal numbers (Wikipedia)

Cardinal numbers (Wolfram Mathworld)

Cardinal numbers (The Encyclopedia of Mathematics)

how do we know that the best move isn't sticking a fork into a toaster?

The speed of the Hardware.

I remember s/t. .i just turned 12 (ill be 49 on halloween). my friends father JD hadda computer. he was sooo taken that it hadda 10 megabyte hard drive. oohh-aahh. lol now right ? see where weve come in 35 yrs ?...know where were going in 35 more ? trust me. were gonna oohh & aahh & laff ourselfs to sleep then !

how do we know that the best move isn't sticking a fork into a toaster?

guess its just as good as pop tarts, flowers on the wall, & blueberry pancakes right ?

Indeed. Prove it!

Why stop at a rook?

Or you could do an Ottó Bláthy.

Oh, of course, I forgot. A pawn advantage is enough to win only in 32 man positions (now that one is hard).

@13491

"a bare minimum of 4.5 candidates per move in classical chess"
++ That gets smaller if transpositions are taken into account.

@13494

"1000+ move games"
++ The 112 ICCF WC finals draws, >99.992% certain to be perfect games with optimal play from both sides end in certain draws in average 39 moves.

@13478

"the same narrow pool of engines" ++ Some may use Stockfish, some LC0, some Komodo...
There is also a difference in hardware, e.g. the Russians have worse hardware because of sanctions. Nevertheless 4 of the 17 finalists are Russians.
It is also possible to tune the engine, e.g. change the parameter 'contempt'.
The time control is 50 days / 10 moves, but one player may spend 2 days on a move and the other 10.

"Nobody has an advantage in playing strength"
++ Over the board 2 of the 17 finalists are IM, 1 is FM, and others untitled.