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Why?

• zem 5y ago
  climate change, no doubt.
• Kaibeezy 5y ago
  Because the only game left will be thrones?
• JanneVee 5y ago
  I don't know how go changed. But as for chess the tournament play at the master level have insane deep opening preparation done before with computers. They play preparation game where they try to guess what lines the opponent checked and memorized before the games. They aren't actually playing until their computer backed preparation ends more than the few moves that they have fed in to come up with something different. Both spectators and players kind of find this a little bit boring. I do acknowledge that this isn't a new phenomena Fischer complained about this before the computer engine era and came up with a chess variant to nullify deep opening prep!
  • _0ffh 5y ago
    Yeah, I guess half the opening is hoping to kick the opponent out of his preparations while staying within your own. Or maybe all.
  • Kelamir 5y ago
    The change in Go is that professionals now play more AI-like stuff, basically the same opening moves, and that's fairly boring to watch. It's the best sequences of moves we have so far, but also everyone knows them and isn't interested. Another change is that territory is more valued than influence now, which too makes games less fun to watch, at least in my experience. To my knowledge, Shibano Toramaru, professional Go player, used to play highly focused on influence, and his games were very interesting to watch; it was just spectacular. But after AlphaGo came he converted to focus on territory like everyone else, only occasionally letting his beast out. But I watched only a few videos on him so don't take my word; it's just my impression.