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

One person explained it like this: if we were to know every board state in chess, we would need a hard drive the size of the moon. That would be sufficient to store a perfect strategy of chess moves to show what the perfect game looks like and prove once and for all what the perfect game- or games- would look like.

The same person also joked that he tried to print out the proof, but his printer ran out of paper. Because of course it did.