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Don't play against bots then. There's plenty of people online to play against at any moment of the day. Maybe I read the wrong forums but this particular hangu
by WJW 3y ago
Don't play against bots then. There's plenty of people online to play against at any moment of the day.
Maybe I read the wrong forums but this particular hangup ("machines can do it better so what is even the point?") seems to be quite unique to chess as a hobby. I've never seen someone on an athletics tournament complaining that the sport is no longer fun because a cannon could throw the spear much farther than even the best athletes, or that they no longer enjoy going to the gym because a construction crane can lift much more than they will ever be able to. Chess is at its core a game of rigidly applying rules, pattern matching, and applying a depth-first search on as deep a search tree as you can manage. It should hardly be a surprise that computers can do that extremely well.
- layman51 3y agoI appreciate your comment because I have thought a lot about chess cheaters who make all of their moves at the recommendation of a chess engine. When playing against them, you really don’t have a chance to win unless you’re playing on a fast time control. Online, and sometimes even in-person, it may not be obvious that someone is cheating which makes you feel all the more powerless. As an improving player though, it’s not a good thing to fixate on. But I can totally understand why some people would want to move on to some other game like maybe bowling, tennis, etc. I find chess engines and any model that can play games themselves very fascinating though. I wonder why chess engines do not really play in a human-like way. That’s why I don’t even like to play against beginner bots because they will tend to make weird and obvious mistakes.