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Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by olkingcole on Sunday April 30, 2023 @11:09PM (#35768697)
I think the main reason, besides chess being fundamentally a great and timeless game, is streaming. Popular streamers picked it up and many top level players also started streaming online chess, which can be very entertaining. Often they are playing fast, exciting time controls like 1 or 2 minutes. Chess.com and others brought flavorful coverage and hosted events with guests from outside the chess world. Chess.com and lichess have great apps and strong competitive communities.

Basically, it's all there. Chess is born anew for the 21st century.

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Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by altcognito on Sunday April 30, 2023 @11:48PM (#35768907)
This is the answer, my kids are all Into it and they really Love Gotham chess (I think that’s what it is called and Hikaru as well) I’m sure there are others but I’m already out of my element.
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Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by visarga on Monday May 01, 2023 @02:02AM (#35769518)
> Chess is born anew for the 21st century.

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

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Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by szopa on Monday May 01, 2023 @02:14AM (#35769575)
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).
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Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by WJW on Monday May 01, 2023 @02:54AM (#35769798)
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.
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