The time to get chess solved is never
The time to make up your mind about people , on the other hand....
From some AI folks:
""It's not currently possible to solve chess within a practical time frame, and it's unlikely that it ever will be.
Explanation
The complexity of chess is so great that it's not possible for modern computers to solve it.
In 1950, Claude Shannon calculated that it would take 1090 years for a computer to make its first move in chess.
Computer analysis has solved chess for almost every position with up to seven pieces.
However, solving all eight-piece positions is still ongoing.
The complexity of the game and its infinite possibilities make it unlikely...."
The possibilities aren't infinite.
But that number from John Tromp formulated in the year 2000 is much too tough for today's computers to have a hope of solving chess anytime soon.
But computers and solving methods will improve.
Have been improving.
When they were building the 'chunnel' under the english channel the two teams tunneling from France and England met in the middle.
Is it possible in theory that a table base project analyzing from endgames - will meet a 'game tree wide forward search' in the middle?
Arguably happens every time a game reaches a book ending.
Which is false.