> “No, no,” said God, “it was really tough. More than 10^35 legal positions
God should know there are approximately 4.8*10^44 legal positions [1].
> Secondly Ken was predicting that the game of chess was a draw, i.e. that probably a majority of all legal positions, including the starting position, would lead to a draw with perfect play.
Only the latter is what the game being drawn means. The majority of legal positions is in fact overwhelmingly to one side's advantage, as is clear from sampling a few dozen random legal positions.