will chess be solved?

Solves chess. Fischer was wrong twice. The game is theoretically a win for black,and 1. Na3 is actually white's best opening move.

What about quantum computers? In theory could they have zero computing time and enough storage for the 32 man tablebases?

Originally posted by sasuser
What about quantum computers? In theory could they have zero computing time and enough storage for the 32 man tablebases?

The solution is simple: a quantum computer. When these computers become a reality very few things will be outside their reach. A hypothetical 500 qubit quantum computer could perform 2^500 calculations at a time.

Originally posted by Balla88
The solution is simple: a quantum computer. When these computers become a reality very few things will be outside their reach. A hypothetical 500 qubit quantum computer could perform 2^500 calculations at a time.

Originally posted by basso
Kasparov weighed in on this a few months ago on the Charlie Rose show. He said that humans would always be able to beat computers because computers will always lack an essential quality of good chess-playing that humans have -- intuition.

chess is not infinite
it IS finite but the numbers involved are so astronimical there are more move variations in a game of chess than there are atoms in the universe . it theoretically could be solved, but so far in the future that to all intents and purposes it is unsolvable when speaking in real terms.but i could be wrong . i mean im a patser

Originally posted by powershaker
In searching to equate the power of technology with the power of the human spirit, we will (and I feel this in my heart) discover that the human spirit has no measure. 🙂 God bless us all.

Originally posted by Bowmann
Twerp.

Originally posted by Bowmann
Solving chess in perhaps just a few trillion years 😵

Originally posted by Balla88
Keep in mind that not all possible chess variations need to be calculated. As games develop the amount of "correct" (best) moves and the response to these moves decreases immensely.

Originally posted by Bowmann
Keep in mind that there is a large number involved to start with. And so a small percentage of it will be astronomical all the same.

Originally posted by Balla88
Perhaps you don't understand how powerful quantum computers would be.

Originally posted by Bowmann
Perhaps you forgot that this thread was about solving chess, not building better machines to play it.

Originally posted by Balla88
And I'm telling you that solving chess doesn't mean finding all possible variations.