But computers have destroyed chess as a "sport". Nobody will sit to watch two chess programs compete, or analyze their tactics. Kinda like how now, anybody can construct a "game" over the weekend or a new song or a slop video. The value of each of these decreases to 0 as the slop overwhelms.

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Bourget 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>Nobody will sit to watch two chess programs compete, or analyze their tactics.

I know nothing about chess yet I dare say that I'd doubt this. Surely chess enthusiasts would be interested in analyzing how a superior chess program came out victorious, no?

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latent-person 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes you are right, some people do watch chess engines play. TCEC (Top Chess Engine Championship) [1] streams them. Popular chess YouTubers goes over engine games from time to time too.

[1] https://tcec-chess.com/

	▲	throwaway27448 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's not proof of interest so much as proof of commerce. It could easily be a money-laundering mechanism. Mostly nobody cares about professional chess. The number of people who are actually interested in today's game and not the drama are a tiny sliver of that. This is actually great because it means we can train and evaluate both without interference from chess players, possibly even building a stable society.

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7373737373 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People do: https://tcec-chess.com/

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derac 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

erm actually, chess tournaments rose in popularity and more people watch now than ever