Will two humans ever play a “perfect” game of chess?

This question was asked on Quora. Click on the title to go to Quora to read all of the answers. Here’s my answer to this question.

There’s an old saw about monkeys typing randomly on a typewriter (pre keyboards, folks). How many monkeys pecking away will it take before one of them writes a Shakespeare play? Apparently, if we have an infinite number of monkeys, the job will be done.

As a science person (bachelors in math), there is not an infinite amount of mass in the universe. So, we won’t be able to get an infinite amount of monkeys (or an infinite amount of typewriters). Thus, this can never elevate beyond a thought experiment.

Anywho, the stated question is kind of like our hypothetical monkey pecking away at a keyboard. Instead of one monkey, we have two humans. The task for the monkey is to produce something beyond its intelligence — a Shakespeare play. The task of the two humans is to produce something beyond their intelligence — to play a perfect game of chess.

Let us, for the sake of argument, postulate that only God can play chess perfectly. This would have been beyond the ability of even Steinitz (the first world champion) who claimed that he could beat God in a game of chess. If God played perfect chess, Steinitz would have been the one to be defeated.