Originally posted by AcolyteI think that's the point, solving chess or reducing it somehow really doesn't have much to do with maths, more to do with brute force. Most mathematicians regard chess as a pastime, not something for serious study. Most would also agree that tricks to increase the ease of approximating perfect play aren't maths either. At the end of the day though all we're arguing about is terminology. :-)
yes, in theory you could analyse all possible sequences of moves, but that's not maths, that's just brute force. What I mean is that there aren't any known mathematical tricks to reduce chess to something computationally manageable.
John.