Is Chess on the verge of being solved?

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bronsteinitz

You know that world famine and poverty were also solved in theory. It seems that when people play the game, there is no such thing as "solved"

VULPES_VULPES

XiangQi (and its Korean equivalent), Shogi, Chess (and its predecessors), and Go (as well as a few others) are pretty much the only traditional board games that are only partially solved, whilst the rest of the simpler games have been submerged by the waters of human and computer intelligence. 

Chess, with its ever-rising popularity, would most likely be the first of the list to be solved. Likewise, the other board games, with its lower popularity, would be solved much later because not as much people try.

Plus, all the board games also have a philosophical realm; a realm which no computer (and not many humans) can ever tread no matter how hard they try. That's the only bright side of chess being solved that I can think of.

For more info, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_complexity 

Elroch

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

marysson

...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...

ChezBoy

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

ChezBoy

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

marysson

..i am pride and predudice...

AndyClifton

I am crime and punishment!

AndyClifton

I am stranger than a very strange land.

Ziryab

Radio KCUF in Kinneret, California. 

Ziryab
Elroch wrote:

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

 

BostonAnon
pathfinder416 wrote:

My Radio Shack chess computer from the 1980's finished solving it last week. But I forgot to write down the solution.

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

Vertwitch
On an invisible abacus 🧮 like those Asian genius kids that use invisible an abacus to do math :-]
Vertwitch
That use an invisible abacus *
Elroch

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

Ziryab
Elroch wrote:

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

 

In 2012:

Elroch wrote:

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

 

Please describe your breakthrough.

llama36
marysson wrote:

..i am pride and predudice...

I AM THE LAW

 

Elroch
Ziryab wrote:
Elroch wrote:

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

 

In 2012:

Elroch wrote:

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

Please describe your breakthrough.

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

chessmaster17402

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

CraigIreland

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.