Will Chess ever be "solved"?

chesskidABC · 2018-01-21T12:54:34-08:00

Do you guys ever think a computer will be able to calculate all the moves from the starting position? If so, do you think Chess will lose popularity, or do you think it won't have any affect on popularity?

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eflacenna

Jul 13, 2021

#161

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.

Omega_Doom

Jul 13, 2021

#162

BS topic over and over.