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A solved game is a game whose outcome (win, lose or draw) can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming that both players play perfectly.This concept is usually applied to abstract strategy games, and especially to games with full information and no element of chance; solving such a game may use combinatorial game theory or computer assistance.
A variant first described by Claude Shannon provides an argument about the game-theoretic value of chess: he proposes allowing the move of “pass”. In this variant, it is provable with a strategy stealing argument that the first player has at least a draw thus: if the first player has a winning move in the initial position, let him play it, else pass.
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Including "solving chess-like games" in the stated scope of the article is a dubious rat-hole: solving some reduced chess-like variants actually provide useful insight into the complexity of solving chess itself, and others do not. Solving Maharajah and the sepoys is not different than checkmating a king with king and piece(s), i.e ...
The World Chess Championship 2006, in which Kramnik beat the FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov, reunified the titles and made Kramnik the undisputed World Chess Champion. [135] In September 2007, he lost the title to Viswanathan Anand of India. Anand defended his title in the revenge match of 2008, [136] 2010 and 2012.
Lichess (/ ˈ l iː tʃ ɛ s /; LEE-ches) [3] [4] is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play rated games.
Mark Zuckerberg gave his ex-Facebook engineer startup advice at 2 a.m. over chess—now she’s a founder with over $8.5 million raised in funding Orianna Rosa Royle August 17, 2024 at 5:00 AM