Will OTB chess be relevant in 100 years?

I do not think there will be professional otb tournaments in one century.

The technology of that era will permit new, perhaps undetectable ways of cheating.

This is not to say chess will not be more popular in the future it will be more popular with this binding effect the internet is having on us

I hope you are mistaken as I find OTB much more exciting than internet chess.

I think none of us can imagine what ANYTHING will be like in 100 years.

100 years ago there was not even a radio station, and TV was the stuff of sci-fi.probably fewer than 1% of humans have seen an airplane, and probably half didnt believe it existed.

Now we have chess playing shoes, geez...

Haha, chess-playing-shoes!

I believe that anti-cheating technology is developing as fast as cheating. I mean, like doping and anti-doping.

Oh dont get me wrong, i love otb chess, but i am looking at the hard reality of the situation

I'm going to put on my chess playing shoes, enter a tournament and kick ass!

This is the golden age of chess. Future generations will be playing online strategic games rather than OTB chess. Sure, the game will survive, but it won't be thriving as it is now. 

I grew up playing OTB chess, but most young strong players play online (real-time) chess. We've been seeing time controls get faster and faster. If chess is to survive at all, it will be in rapid formats. 

This is of course a tremendous loss for chess culture, but history is full of such lost causes. The romantics will continue to play chess in the old way and there may even be a FIDE world chess champion in 2113, but it won't be relevant in the way chess is now. (And if we're honest, we know how little relevance it has even now for most people.)

people might cheat and ruin chess ):

Nobody here can imagine life in 100 years. The technological singularity  might be reached before that (== a computer smarter than any human, and able to create an improved version of itself).

Regarding the move to faster time controls. This is not done because players want it so. In my opinion it is because the organizers prefer it that way. Personally I already find 90+30s too quick for decent chess. Bring back the 120-150 mins per 30 moves time controls!

bring in 1|0 .. id be the happiest person alive, loveeeeeee bullet.

I agree: the quality of play is proportionate to the length of a game.

Does it matter? We won't be alive!

Technology isn't magic.  There will always be a ways to detect and prevent cheating.

Imo there will always be new ways of cheating. Us humans, are good at finding those.

Surprises come every decade, not every 100 years.  What has the OP been smoking?

Chess (otb & Internet) will be played in a hundred and a thousand years as long as there is some form of civilization. Professional chess may be a thing of the past but the game itself will survive. This is incredible in that nobody will play board games in the distant future IMO. I think even checkers will die a slow death. But the culture of chess is pervasive and has a life of its own.

I think it will.But I don't think we'll live to see what happens.

Well, I read somewhere  recently (maybe even somewhere in these forums, even) that the 1st person who will reach an age of 200 years has already been born.

Human by nature are competitive.  In 100 years, just like today, the best want to test themselves by playing the best and the lesser talented want to see how they would fare against the best.   People are also social anumals and like being with other humans.  Only an OTB tournament can bring the best together with others.   How much money will be involved will depend on the popularity. 

Cheating affects a sports popularity as with boxing and horse racing in the United States but it won't eliminate the game.  Thank goodness there are always more people who clean games than there are who want to cheat.