I don't agree. I feel that chess engines have killed chess as a pastime that people play. I know growing up in the 80s I played it during lunch at school, and s

I don't agree. I feel that chess engines have killed chess as a pastime that people play. I know growing up in the 80s I played it during lunch at school, and schools had chess clubs which really weren't on the order of forming neophyte pros, but just students who liked the game. But now it's rather futile to play it, because at some point you'll run up against a machine that can outplay you perfectly. I mean, before you could play a grandmaster or something, but the moment you or someone else for you buys a ten-dollar chess program, you realize that despite improvement, the computer will always defeat you. I don't really see chess as that big any more in the public eye. The kids might play Minecraft, which rewards human creativity and doesn't really force you to compete against an A.I. optimized to beat 99% of all Minecraft players.