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Chess players are switching to blitz/rapid chess. It dominates online on the main chess servers. For high level tournaments, they just need to ensure controlled
by heyitsnick 14y ago
Chess players are switching to blitz/rapid chess. It dominates online on the main chess servers. For high level tournaments, they just need to ensure controlled environments so issues of cheating are minimized.
- rpearl 14y agoIt only dominates (and has dominated for basically the whole existence of internet chess) because games are short, fun, and non-committal. Playing a tournament game means spending hours on one game. That's exhausting and not something people "do for fun." On the other hand, you can get in a dozen 5 minute games in around an hour. Computers still overpower humans on 5 0 chess. Even a crappy non-optimized bot I wrote can get 12 levels of the tree plus quiescence essentially instantly.