yes nothing is sure as in 100%. [well highly probable in some situations.]
Will Chess ever be "solved"?
Everybody suggests that solving chess would be impossible due to 10^120 possibilities which are much higher than the atoms in universe. For starters, unique positions are much smaller than this which is about 10^48, secondly, computer would not need to calculate all unnecessary repetitions and nonsense lines. This would greatly reduce the moves to be calculated. We can go further and make the engine stop calculations after the positions evaluated greater than +10/-10 which means clear win. Having these in mind, supercomputers would be able to solve chess probably.
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About the future nothing is sure.
During this century:
Men will walk on Mars - probably, not sure
The Riemann Hypothesis will be proved - probably, not sure
A Third World War will erupt - hopefully not
Chess will be solved - I believe so
Use of factory testing of supercomputers already has been used to find Mersenne primes, so it can be used to solve chess as well.