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e4 recently was ‘proven’ a draw by Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura. The main line 1. e4 e5 2. Ke2 Ke7 quickly leads to a draw by repetition of moves (https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2029671. Video of the game at https://youtube.com/watch?v=zVCst6vyV80)

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That line only leads to a repetition of moves if it's played as a joke by mutual consensus. It's sort of like two people pointing guns at each other verbally accepting to drop their weapons. Will one of them hold on to theirs?

I don't understand how proven is the right word here.

Only if Leela etc decide with high confidence that that line is the best possible for both players would I start to believe it.

That comment was joking. Please watch the video :)

“Proven” indeed isn’t the right word. That’s why I wrote “’proven’” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes)

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