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Chess was the drosophila of AI - something one could study in detail and invent newer and newer approaches to solving it. It's no longer having that function, was surpassed by Go for a brief moment until that one got solved as well. A whole generation that was raised on this drosophila is slowly fading away, for the new entrants its no longer the game to beat, more like brain stimulating fun exercise/hobby and not something capturing imagination, telling us something about the very base of our intelligence anymore.