[ronnykylin]

Good to see human beings are still challenging themselves in chess after AlphaGo

[umanwizard]

AlphaGo plays go, not chess. Computers have crushed humans at chess for 20+ years.

[ronnykylin]

Good to know, thanks. And yet we are still celebrating human victory in chess. Tears again.

[jpgvm]

Ironically engines made the game better IMO.

[ronnykylin]

Hopefully engines make the game more fun for humans. >_-

[jpgvm]

I think they have, depends on what level you play at.

I'm a lowly 1400-1500 rated player so I'm not using engines to prepare the sorts of crazy lines you see in a WCC but they help me understand when a position has outs/things to play for and/or quickly identify when a winning line was available.

i.e I mostly use it for post-game analysis and it's been really good. I don't have the sort of money to pay for 1:1 chess mentorship so engine is the next best thing.

I derive my enjoyment in chess from improving, engines help me improve ergo engines make chess more enjoyable for me.

[ronnykylin]

Yep, I use ChatGPT the same way. It is the next best thing to a human mentor when I need to quickly grasp a new concept.

[tinza123]

By that logic 100m dashing should be abondoned after the invention of cars.

[ronnykylin]

This is a good viewpoint. You actually make me feel relieved. I used to worry about human jobs being taken by AI. Now that I think of it as something like cars, I can see human life will be much more convenient as long as we go through that transition.