This is my opinion only. I think that it is going to happen.
These days people are getting educational degrees on the web.People doing their exams on internet.I guess chess rating can be got on internet. And chess.com is going to overpower FIDE like organizations.
Love.
No way.
Very strange that a 15 years old boy, Likhit, says NO, because the youth, worldwide, is growing up with internet for school work, exams, purchases, information, music, games...
Playing chess at any time becomes popular, not being bound to club hours and even to the distance to the club and the costs involved.
There is another forum here on clubs with a decreasing numbers of members, due to ageing as well. I play chess for a very long time and originally one needed a club to play, that's over. In my village the club just ended this year, and in good times we had four teams in the Amsterdam League.
Chess rating is less important, compared with the possibility and pleasure to play all sorts of chess on the internet.
The FIDE organisation will remain for the thousands of top players, like the organisations per country, but alas, mostly for the top, that's to say not that much for the millions of normal enthousiastic players of chess.
In Holland the Chess Association has an open eye for internet and computer chess, that's the future, Il Gambit Too !
As much as I love playing online chess,I don't think it can replace otb chess.Neither can Chess.com take the place of FIDE/USCF.OTB chess will continue to thrive.But I'd love to see websites such as FIDE arena make chess more and more popular.The chances of winning real cash and prizes are sure to tempt people to learn chess.
People learn a lot of things to be a millnoire. A cash prize like 1 million dollar would be quite tempting to learn chess by all the population in the world. It is going to happen soon.
Love
I have to agree with the OP. Nowadays people buy, study, make their grosseries, meet, and play online. Who doesn't have access to a computer these days?
I am myself a good exemle of this, I've never played in a club or in OTB tournaments and my passion for chess started playing online.
I think that FIDE have come to realized that, there is a decrease in OTB tournaments participation around the world and they've recently launched Fide Online Arena which will now allows people around the world to compete in an online envirnments and get a FIDE rating.
Of course OTB chess will never disappear, I love playing casual games with relatives but the the communities of chess players are now increasingly meeting online. There is no chess club in my city anymore and in many other. Chess has transcended the ages and it is now able to adapt istelf to this technological era.
I hope not.
God i hope not because this crap is a poor substitute for real chess. Too much cheating on-line and too many idiots that think they can talk shit to the opponent just because they are hiding behind a computer screen
This is my opinion only. I think that it is going to happen.
These days people are getting educational degrees on the web.People doing their exams on internet.I guess chess rating can be got on internet. And chess.com is going to overpower FIDE like organizations.
Love.