Is it possible Alpha Zero will eventually solve chess? I googled this question and ended up here. From previous questions, it seems Alpha Zero has not solved chess yet and if it does it will take a very long time. Nonetheless, it may be possible one day. I am wondering whether the programmers, or whichever title designers of the Alpha Zero system prefer to use, have built anything into Alpha Zero to detect if it discovers a solution. Also, even though the time required to solve chess is clearly enormous, even with the power of Alpha Zero has anyone attempted to calculate how long it might actually take? Is it likely to be more or less than 7.5 million years and is it possible it will involve the number 42? Perhaps all chess games can always be concluded in 42 moves with perfect play.
No, it can't.
Even if you had it train on a zillion self-playing games and it miraculously achieved perfect play somehow, we would have no way of proving that it had achieved perfect play without first solving chess some other way and then comparing AlphaZero's play to perfect play in all possible positions.
Its approach simply doesn't result in a solution for chess, it's just a way to find good moves. A solution is a mathematical proof.