no ones learing chess by playing it, you just learn an idea, test it, win a bunch of games and then learn next idea, in a sense you are not playing chess but implementing ideas someone else has thought out for you
Aren't you a bit late to complain about this? Like 180 years too late?
Chess opening theory is much older than computers. The legendary Bilguer opening "Handbuch" was published in 1843, toughly 120 years before the first computer played chess.
i learned na5 in the italian a while ago and no one is ever prepared for it
i meant in the fried liver sorry
The two knights defense is dead thanks Na5
It's what you get out of it. If you feel like it's dead that is up to you and you alone, I just don't understand the need to convince and take the fun out of it for others.
i learned na5 in the italian a while ago and no one is ever prepared for it
i meant in the fried liver sorry
The two knights defense is dead thanks Na5
The Gotenburg is dead. Thanks, Nxe6.
Nobody is forcing you to study other people's ideas. You can implement ideas you come up with on your own.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be...
Everything is just memorized book lines with no creativity or excitement, you say?
None of those games followed book lines, but they seemed pretty exciting to me.
This is what a game looks like when it follows book lines:
... but you find that sort of stuff boring, right?
... right?
Excitement is dead, thanks emus.