[kylebgorman]

Mechanical reproduction is a force multiplier allowing your art to touch millions or billions. (Mozart & Michelangelo didn't know this was coming, but I'm a consequentialist, so I give them credit for it.)

Far smaller is the audience for play-by-plays of competitive chess. I'd guess because the experience is less visceral? I've read a beginner-intermediate books with this kind of play-by-play and found it interesting enough, but I'd take my record collection over those books any day.