Will chess ever be solved
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title says it. Will humans ever solve chess to a draw every game within 100 years?
morethantwentycharac wrote:
oh look a troll.
The Illuminati solved chess in 1994. All play since then has been a fraud.
Dec 1, 2016
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#3
In 100 years, definitely not.
Most likely never a full solution i.e. 32 man EGTB as you'd need a storage device larger than the earth itself to store the solution.
Chess is practically solved.
if Facebook try to solve it, in a scientific way, it can be done as soon as 5 years or less
But they are not going to do it, so I guess it takes 50 years or less.
It's possible that suddenly everybody loses interest in chess, and it will never be solved simply because of obscurity. I propose Monopoly as a successor.
Dec 1, 2016
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#7
If a billionaire would finance the chess solution project, it could be solved in 5 years. I expect the solution to be a combination of 16 men EGTB and 30 moves Opening Book.
Dec 1, 2016
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#8
5 years? 50 years? Those who said this clearly know nothing about it. No offense.
But in a practical sense, where we have computers so much better than humans that even ICCF wont exist any more, sure, that may be very soon.
For a sort of soft solution where most positions are played very likely perfectly, sure, that could be not so far away.
The great thing about chess is that while it is clear the correct result is a draw, it is also clear there are numerous pathways to such a result.
The Spanish is a draw. The Caro is a draw. Probably the Slav and Grunfeld are draws; and so is there really a "solution" when there are many different equally good sequences of moves by both sides?
dpnorman wrote:
I like this. good point. only a matter of time for other name openings to end in draws.
The great thing about chess is that while it is clear the correct result is a draw, it is also clear there are numerous pathways to such a result.
The Spanish is a draw. The Caro is a draw. Probably the Slav and Grunfeld are draws; and so is there really a "solution" when there are many different equally good sequences of moves by both sides?
Dec 1, 2016
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#11
No. Even if computers could work out the answer, with current storage technologies, the universe is too small to contain the data.
teek0 wrote:
says who???
morethantwentycharac wrote:
oh look a troll.
The Illuminati solved chess in 1994. All play since then has been a fraud.
that requires a ton of theory. and if the best move is played from both sides its drawn already, so i dont see the point for a human.
A god or goddess will solve chess
It was solved in 1914 by an unknown Russian peasant living near St Petersburg who demonstrated a forced mate in twelve from the initial position. Alekhine, Capablanca and Lasker jointly murdered him and suppressed the discovery, which has been lost like Fermat's proof of his Last Theorem ever since. Alekhine confessed on his death-bed, but took the secret to his grave with him.
It was mate in 19.
Every time I hear that story I can't help myself to imagine Lasker and Capa kicking him to death like Jimmy Conway and Tommy de Vito in Goodfellas. 
Krolp wrote:
It's possible that suddenly everybody loses interest in chess, and it will never be solved simply because of obscurity. I propose Monopoly as a successor.
Time to enhance chess difficulties.Try variants ?