Can I win in a chess match using mathematics?

**Math is not what we think when we play chess.**

This was a question asked on Quora. Click my name above to see my Quora account. Here was my anwer there…

No.

The great Emanuel Lasker was a mathematician (Ph.D. university professor). In his Manual of Chess, he tried to use mathematics to solve chess. He set up a bunch of “theorems” for endgames. His working hypothesis…

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