Draw Inevitability in Chess

Paper: Draw Inevitability in Chess: A Formal Conjecture and Theoretical Analysis
Author: Nikolai Nedovodin (2025)

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📄 Overview

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The work presents a formal game-theoretic framework for the long-standing question of whether classical chess is a theoretical draw, introducing the Draw Stability Index (DSI) and structural lemmas for draw inevitability.

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📜 Citation

If you use this work, please cite as:

Nikolai Nedovodin (2025). Draw Inevitability in Chess: A Formal Conjecture and Theoretical Analysis.

(arXiv link to be added upon publication)

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