alt Hacker NewsAFAIK chess is has been "solved" for a few years in the sense that Stockfish running on modern laptop with 1 minute per move is unbeatable from the starting position.
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sscg13 • yesterday at 7:30 PM
You can run Stockfish single threaded in a deterministic manner by specifying nodes searched instead of time, so in principle it is possible to set some kind of bounty for beating Stockfish X at Y nodes per move from the start position, but I haven't seen anyone willing to actually do so.
altruios • yesterday at 6:02 PM
Even by a stockfish running on a modern laptop with 2 minutes per move (provided they are going second)?!
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bee_rider • yesterday at 6:54 PM
“Solved” is a term of art. Defining it in some other way is not really wrong (since it is a definition) but it seems… unnecessary.
This is not true. Stockfish is not unbeatable by another engine, or another copy of Stockfish.
Chess engines have been impossible for humans to beat for well over a decade.
But a position in chess being solved is a specific thing, which is still very far from having happened for the starting position. Chess has been solved up to 7 pieces. Solving basically amounts to some absolutely massive tables that have every variation accounted for, so that you know whether a given position will end in a draw, black win or white win. (https://syzygy-tables.info)