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I always thought Kasparov was granted a tremendous opportunity by the advent of computer chess. He spent his life honing his skills, becoming better and better

I always thought Kasparov was granted a tremendous opportunity by the advent of computer chess. He spent his life honing his skills, becoming better and better at chess until he was the very best. And then, when noone could challenge him, technology emerged that would allow him to continue being challenged and improving his chess game. Something no other human could allow him to do. Granted, I'm pretty ignorant about competitive chess and how to get better at it. But if my way of looking at it is valid then it probably applies to Lee Se-dol too.

DiogenesKynikos 7y ago
> And then, when noone could challenge him, technology emerged that would allow him to continue being challenged and improving his chess game. That technology's name? Vladimir Kramnik. At the time DeepBlue beat Kasparov, Kasparov was honestly still probably better than the computer. He just had a bad match. That was basically demonstrated by his and Kramnik's matches against presumably better computers (than DeepBlue) in the early-to-mid 2000s, which ended in draws. But Kramnik was also a strong competitor to Kasparov in the late 1990s into the 2000s.