A more suitable analogy to me would be - did Formula 1 kill off all other motor racing series? I don't think it did. Do you feel like, because you couldn't bea

A more suitable analogy to me would be - did Formula 1 kill off all other motor racing series? I don't think it did. Do you feel like, because you couldn't beat a supercomputer there's no point in playing all the humans on the way towards competing at the highest levels? Also, was there much innovation left in the game even before the AIs took over? As a casual chess player I (probably naively) thought that the game had been explored pretty exhaustively already. No sarcasm intended, as I said I'm strictly a casual player so I enjoy the game for the intellectual challenge and the social element, but all the upper echelon stuff is a mystery to me.