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Yep. In chess, you have to make mistakes to lose. Top players don't make very many mistakes, so often nobody loses.
by umanwizard 8y ago
Yep. In chess, you have to make mistakes to lose. Top players don't make very many mistakes, so often nobody loses.
- lolc 8y ago> In chess, you have to make mistakes to lose. That's a conjecture. Nothing more. Nobody knows whether it is true! It is possible that a perfect player playing White may make you lose every time. It's even possible (though highly doubtful) that this holds for Black instead.
- umanwizard 8y agoYou're right that in theory nobody has proven whether chess is won, lost, or drawn with perfect play. But all available evidence, as well as my personal intuition (and that of almost all top players), screams that it's drawn.