Is Chess on the verge of being solved?

Chess is a LONG way from being solved. Countless trillions of times more computing power are needed than the games that have been solved.

...you all miss the point.

...the reason chess 960 was put into play was because "memorization"...which is the meaning of "being solved" has been, by computer has overtaken human memory...

..."solving" is 00the question of "has chess lost it's predictiability ?...yes...that is why is it "solved".

chess 960 has removed ( for a time ) such predictability..

...if you wish to "unsolve chess" then you must give the robot a fourth command...

....you may not play chess.

...isamov would understand ( but i think few of you do not )...

...i am fahrenheit 451...

No. Even if it was, it wouldn't really change the game.

.i am fahrenheit 451...? I read that book, and I am wondering what within the book you are referencing to.

..i am pride and predudice...

I am crime and punishment!

I am stranger than a very strange land.

Radio KCUF in Kinneret, California. 

Sorry, what is a radio shack? Just kidding, I'm old like you.

I solved chess, but unfortunately the margin on this webpage is not big enough to post the proof.

In 2012:

Please describe your breakthrough.

I AM THE LAW

The key step was being inspired by Pierre Fermat to make a joke.

there are more possible chess games then the atoms on earth. if chess is going to be solved it will take at least 1000 more years

I wouldn't even try to predict the advances the human race will make in the next 1000 years, should it survive that long. You're looking at a complex system of interacting exponentials with many unknowns, which could lead to wildly different results. Let's try to make it through the next 100 years first.

https://youtu.be/izQB2-Kmiic

@241
The number of chess games lies between  10^29241 and 10^34082.
https://wismuth.com/chess/longest-game.html

However, the number of legal chess positions is 10^44.
https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking 

Losing Chess has been solved using 10^9 positions, a billion.
http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/~watkins/LOSING_CHESS/ICGA2016.pdf 

To weakly solve chess needs 10^17 legal, sensible, reachable, relevant positions.
100 million billion positions.

Cloud engines can calculate a billion positions per second.
https://chessify.me/blog/nps-what-are-the-nodes-per-second-in-chess-engine-analysis

In 5 years there are 100 million seconds.
5 * 365.25 * 24 * 3600

Chess can be solved in 5 years.

"Give me five years, good assistants and the latest computers
- I will bring all openings to technical endgames and "close" chess." - GM Sveshnikov