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I thought that Deep Blue and Alpha Zero would be the demise of Chess and especially online chess. Why play when a machine can trivially beat you, or worse, scor

• vouaobrasil 3y ago
  Your final statement is grossly misleading. People do mind. I actually follow the chess world. It is much easier now to cheat at chess than it ever was, and it even happens at the grandmaster level. In some ways, the most recent controversy with Magnus Carlsen is due to computers and cheating. Moreover, many people cheat at online chess. Finally, chess is becoming less interesting for sure, now that computers have introduced such a high level of mechanization in the study of it. SURE, people STILL enjoy chess, but one could CERTAINLY argue that computers, Deep Blue, and Alpha Zero have made chess less interesting due to cheating and over-analyzing. That is why some people have even got to playing random chess (random starting position), because the overemphasis on highly-studied opening plays, especially by computers, makes the whole process a little too machine-like.