If both players at a chess game play the best moves and continue to play the best moves until the end even if it is a draw then which will these moves be?

Answer 1

it depends what the other player does The question as posed cannot be answered because there are too many variables to the game to even suggest that there is any such thing as a "best move." White might feel more comfortable playing a closed game beginning with moving the king's pawn two spaces. Other players prefer moving their queen's pawn two spaces as a first move. Still others may prefer to move one or another knight's one space in order to move the bishop to the vacated square in order to try to control the center of the board by attacking the central squares rather than by occupying them as with the king pawn and queen pawn moves. Still other players as White might prefer an Indian opening such as king's knight to square f3. White will choose its first move based on its preference in playing a particular style of game as well as by judging the type of game the player of the black pieces is weakest at. There is no such thing as the best move for White. Since White has several options for its initial move, there are even more alternatives for the first move by Black. Depending on White's first move, Black will play any one of a variety of defenses, such as the Sicilian, the French, the Caro Kann, Alekhine's and many other known defenses. Black also will choose a defense it is most comfortable with or which he/she feels would be best against the style the other player employs. Thus, no matter which of several moves White makes, there is no "best move" for Black. Once the particular openings have taken shape the battle on the board will become one where no set line of moves can even be predicted, much less deemed "best." In the middlegame, some players like to gamble and sacrifice pieces in order to gain advantages in tempo, development and attacking opportunities Others prefer to play more conservatively almost waiting for the other player to make the first mistake. So there is no such thing as a line of "best moves" that either player may follow to an inevitable win or draw. To be sure there are certain moves that are better than others, but none that are "best." If there were, Chess would not even be a game.