Chess will never be solved, here's why

I am not sure what you mean.

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'variation of this that is not skewed to one side of the board, which is entirely reasonable'
++ Not really, white has more reasonable moves than black.

"assuming an average true branching factor of 35" ++ That is way too much.
10^38 = 3^80, hence the average branching factor without transposition must be 3.

You are forgetting two crucial factors but, to keep the discussion simple, I will point out that if you replace 35 with 3, that means there are over 6,000,000 distinct moves that could refute the analysis at every move. The consequence is the same.

There may be positions with 31 legal moves, but most of these can be pruned right away,
and many will just be transpositions, i.e. other move orders leading to the same positions.
Engines use transposition tables and do not recalculate.

Dr. Phil is incompetent.

ur just jealous cuz hes extraordinarily wealthy, a dad success, and sectsee smart.

I am not sure what you mean.

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There may be positions with 31 legal moves, but most of these can be pruned right away,and many will just be transpositions, i.e. other move orders leading to the same positions.Engines use transposition tables and do not recalculate.

so true. and recall 2. Ba6 ?...never EVER will white overcome being dn a bishop. elrock ?...repeat after me - "Inherent". and plz dont self-argue ur own common sense into being uncommon. ur better than that...i should hope.

Never EVER will one side be down over ~3 points w/out compensation in a superdupersilicon game. and dont expect a doozie combo that overcomes this height of decrepancy. itll be seen way before that.

we will solve chess. trust me. and itll happen in rachets. cold porridge > just right > goldilox burnt her tongue. not predicting the platinum solution will outcome a win. expecting a piece count alone of many (12-14 ?...if so). i can bob my foot & hold my breath. dont you dodo due. you'll pass out (burp).

There may be positions with 31 legal moves, but most of these can be pruned right away,and many will just be transpositions, i.e. other move orders leading to the same positions.Engines use transposition tables and do not recalculate.

so true. and recall 2. Ba6 ?...never EVER will white overcome being dn a bishop. ...

Demonstrably false. I let SF16.1 play the position as White and it already has overcome being dn a bishop. 

In fact the position is a White mate in 45. Here is a @tygxc style proof.

And engines can validly use only transpositions of nodes, not @tygxc's positions under competition rules, to avoid recalculating. There aren't too many of those.

For what it's worth, my strength is endgames / positional play. I'm weakest at attacking / combinations. When I was a beginner I thought tactics were only tricks that worked on bad opponents, and I thought GMs only won in the endgame so that's what I studied... my rating improved very slowly many years later I realized attacking was not "tricks" and it was better for beginners to focus on tactics but at least I had fun doing it my way.

10 years ago I'd regularly disagree with the quick analysis of engines (chess.com or lichess or on my PC). They would suggest "bad" moves, but if I gave them more time or forced them to look at different lines, they'd eventually agree with me... that doesn't happen anymore. Sure sometimes I prefer the 2nd, 3rd, 4th choice of the engine because it's more practical, but I can't prove them wrong (so to speak) anymore... now... could a top GM laugh at an engine's anti-positional move and be proven right? I don't know, I'm not even close to that level... but neither are ICCF players. In fact they're even lower rated than me... and that's my point.