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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
Don't get what you are saying. Perfect play means that if the opponent moves into a position where there are now a forced series of moves that will checkmate him, the perfect player will always see it and do it no matter how many moves it takes. I'[m thinking that you were thinking about both players being perfect. They say that is almost certainly a draw. My question is whether a slightly imperfect player, ie modern computers, are good enough to avoid the forced checkmate the perfect player will always see.
I don’t know if this info would help but computers now are playing perfectly up to this :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_tablebase
« Tablebases are generated by retrograde analysis, working backward from a checkmated position. By 2005, all chess positions with up to six pieces, including the two kings, had been solved. By August 2012, tablebases had solved chess for almost every position with up to seven pieces, but the positions with a lone king versus a king and five pieces were omitted because they were considered to be "rather obvious."[1][2] These positions were included by August 2018.[3] As of 2022, work is still underway to solve all eight-piece positions.
The solutions have profoundly advanced the chess community's understanding of endgame theory. Some positions which humans had analyzed as draws were proven to be winnable; in some cases the tablebase analysis could find a mate in more than five hundred moves, far beyond the horizon of humans, and beyond the capability of a computer during play ».