[visarga]

> Chess is born anew for the 21st century.

Where are the doomers who said chess was over after being solved by AI?

[WJW]

They're over with the people who said weight lifting was over after cranes were invented, or that athletics competitions would be obsoleted by cars.

[szopa]

Those were simply people with not enough imagination. Eg. AlphaGo beating Lee Sedol brought a true renaissance in Go, with papers showing that now humans play objectively better than they did before AI. While we have comfortably superhuman AIs, they are still far from godlike. The doomers were confused about where the ceiling was (and in Go it is much further than we thought).