Is chess like math?

@RISHI2 said in #10:

Chess use algebra and algebra is math search it on any where.
In my opinion, the only way chess uses math (in practical situations) is counting the number of moves, or to map the coordinates. Perhaps some vague functions could define the different moves, but it would have to count for all the special moves, for instance, castling, en passant, promotion, and a weird two-pawns-between-two-bishops rule I discovered on GothamChess. It would be difficult to operate, but not impossible. After all, Stockfish does, in a way, use math to calculate. However, it can't account for the positional factors of a position, which is essential for chess mastery, because it uses brute calculation.

There are certain problems in math that can be framed with the theme being chess. For example, by using induction, you can prove that a knight can reach all 64 squares of the chessboard using its peculiar L-shaped fashion of moving. Or you can assume that the chessboard in question is an infinite one.

Math has more absolute law. It does not say unless it's a rook pawn and a few other exceptions.

@Damkiller25 said in #4:

That's absolutly incorrect, notching about core gameplay involves about numbers (unless material amount but league of legends would be also math in that definition)
Science is about study of enviorment. Chess is a broad game.
Chess can be a sport as well

Math can be defined as the language of the universe, and that language is built using a bunch of patterns and logic. Those patterns are used in science, which is the logic that we use in both math and science from the patterns that we see in nature.

In Chess, there are patterns too(Patterns of openings and positional patterns), and that patterns we use to create some chess logic. Similar way, science works that way.

So its generally complicated to say that chess is just a board game.

@RISHI2
So every game is math. Because every single game requires number manipulation. Even this website because it uses boxes with are fixed number size.
Litterally every single software is math because it uses binary switches. In order to be rendered on the screen.
Binary numbers are number.

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There are certain aspects of chess and maths that overlap. They are both based on logic and similar problem solving techniques. You can program a computer to calculate prime numbers or play chess equally successfully.
That's why there are many strong players with a mathematical background. World champions Lasker, Euwe and Botvinnik. The early English GMs Miles, Mestel, Nunn. Or currently Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

@Damkiller25 said in #15:

@RISHI2
So every game is math. Because every single game requires number manipulation. Even this website because it uses boxes with are fixed number size.
Litterally every single software is math because it uses binary switches. In order to be rendered on the screen.
Binary numbers are number.
I mean, every single game uses patterns, so...

chess is chess. It is about possibitilies and logical reasoning. But for humans also pattern recognition and memory, visualisation.
Thus the question is: is chess a subset of math? I don't know.