Chess was born with an unknown, yet well defined, maximum lifetime. Lack of any random element implies that the number of scenarios is finite; huge, very huge,

Chess was born with an unknown, yet well defined, maximum lifetime. Lack of any random element implies that the number of scenarios is finite; huge, very huge, but finite. When matches were played by mail (mail as in postal service, not email), and the most passionate players subscribed to specialised paper magazines, it was a kind of huge that you could be excused for confusing with infinity. But internet and computers have changed the playing field enormously, and now that huge has showed for what it always was: huge, but finite. Chess is dead.