Strange thread...most people seem to have no idea what "solving" a game means.
Solving a game does not mean being dominant over all other humans...otherwise chess was "solved" by Morphy, even though we can find many suboptimal moves in his play now.
Solving also doesn't mean calculating every permutation.
What it means is a mathematically best strategy has been shown -- either an unstoppable strategy that always wins for one player, or a strategy that forces a draw (where an unstoppable can be proved to not exist).
At this time, the game of chess has not been solved, but there is no reason why it is impossible, or intractable.
I think Go will be solved before chess, and when that happens we can suspect chess is coming soon. Go has many more permutations than chess, so is sometimes described as a more complex game, but I think, given only one kind of "piece" and "move" it looks a better candidate for finding an unbeatable strategy.
But what about the fact that most moves made have countermoves? How does that play into this explanation?
What championship contender played Go to train?