Re:Evolution of chess: Popularity of openings over time
by patrickmay on Monday May 26, 2014 @07:18PM
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No, it is not yet possible to brute force all chess games. The largest extant endgame database has full solutions for seven pieces on the board. Once you get to that point, chess is solved. ;-)
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Re:Evolution of chess: Popularity of openings over time
by rmrfrmrf on Monday May 26, 2014 @07:46PM
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Just to clarify what you alluded to, it's theoretically possible for chess to be solved, and progress is being made slowly, but surely (it took around 7 years for chess to be solved up to 7 pieces). Of course, with each additional piece comes an exponentially larger set of positions, so progress from 7 to 8 pieces should take much longer assuming there aren't any massive breakthroughs in computing speed.