Chess has 10¹²⁰ different positions. Checkers has only 10²⁰. Checkers has been solved. So no, I don't think chess will be solved ever as it has a googol times as many positions
No, chess has around 10^45 positions. You are thinking of the number of legal games.
This is still over 10^24 times as many as checkers, a game which took over 1000 years of computing time to solve.
ngl tygxc seems a lot more reasonable in this thread, it's a shame he went off the deep end.
ngl tygxc seems a lot more reasonable in this thread, it's a shame he went off the deep end.
Don't forget that I made the guidelines on page 1 with Ponz and Tygxc in mind, to specifically head off various tactics and repetitive claims.
Black can’t always mimic white I tried its impossible
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Opinion by the late GM Sveshnikov:
"Chess is an exact mathematical problem. The solution comes from two sides: the opening and the endgame. The middlegame does not exist. The middlegame is a well-studied opening. An opening should result in an endgame.... Give me five years, good assistants and modern computers, and I will trace all variations from the opening towards tablebases and 'close' chess. I feel that power."
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes
Opinion by the late GM Sveshnikov:
"Chess is an exact mathematical problem. The solution comes from two sides: the opening and the endgame. The middlegame does not exist. The middlegame is a well-studied opening. An opening should result in an endgame.... ..."
Perfectly true, but by the same token neither middlegame nor opening exist, they're just progressively harder endgames. The concepts are in fact just crutches to aid practical play that is a far cry from solved chess.
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes
Should really read, "... and I shall break the lever."
I found this forum and thought I’d say ‘hello.’ I'm currently exploring Shannon's Number and its implications for chess. I am an unrated amateur but I am interested in the discussions here. My approach is simply to explore whatever I encounter as I look into this subject. I have begun by learning some python and working with fen strings to deepen my understanding of the database size problems.
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My opinion is that chess, as a game played by humans, will never be "solved". As for a purely mathematical solution I have no idea but neither do I see it as a problem (or even an interesting question but then I´m no mathematician).