Which side in chess would win if both players played “perfectly”?

Question

Isn’t chess a “finite” game where no luck is involved? Are computers able to calculate perfect strategies for both players?

And if yes, then which side is at the advantage?

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Answer 1

Part of the reason that it is difficult to use computers to model the game is that you can make moves that don’t actually progress the game. They can get include moves like, move piece a forward two spaces, the next turn move piece a back two spaces, then next turn move piece a forward two spaces, ect… When you actually use an intelligence to limit the number of moves to ones that progress the game in some way it drastically cuts down on the number of moves. So at the moment humans are the only intelligence that will make intelligent moves naturally, most of the computers that learned to play chess were programed with moves or learned from watching human players.