Elon Musk feels 'chess will be fully solved one day'; what does Carlsen think?
Elon Musk claimed that AI will eventually 'solve' chess, prompting a rebuttal from Chess.com and a measured response from world champion Magnus Carlsen. Carlsen noted that while AI has made the game more accessible, chess is already effectively a draw at the highest level.
Why it matters
This exchange highlights the ongoing debate regarding the limits of AI capabilities versus human mastery in complex strategic games.
BENGALURU: Elon Musk picked a fight with chess earlier this week. The world's richest man declared on X that chess will one day be "fully solved", the way checkers was cracked by computers back in 2007, with his logic being that most legal moves are so obviously bad that AI could eventually map the entire game.Chess.com's response was a masterclass in brevity. "Skill issue," they wrote. Musk doubled down anyway, insisting chess "is hard for humans, but not for computers" and would eventually be "fully solved like checkers" before admitting, almost sheepishly, that he'd spent his evening "arguing with some random intern" running the chess site's account.Chess.com wasn't about to let that slide. The person on the other end, it clarified, was in fact a full-time employee. The internet, predictably, had a field day.On Thursday, the current World No.
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