What do you think the next chess boom will be

What do you think the next chess boom will be?

We had the pandemic, the Queens Gambit, mittens, what next?

Idk honestly I have no idea 😂

When Frank becomes a GM

I don't have any doubts about it. It will be Classical Fischer-Random. The upcoming event next year will be the first in history it seems. Magnus Carlsen may even get the spark started where he will play real chess at serious time controls again instead of wasting the rest of his career playing skittles online. If Bobby Fischer came back from the dead this is the one event where Carlsen would have no computer advantage. Just pure chess skill. I might add that this may even bring back Judit Polgar and other older elite players who can no longer compete because of having to memorize hundreds of lines in the opening.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-ding-caruana-in-new-200-000-fischer-random-event

No idea, but it will go completely unnoticed by nearly everyone on the planet

Chess is going to be dead in a couple of ten years...Once chips can be inserted in human brain its over.

Have fun playing while you still can.

I forgot to say "because chess is just a board game, and the people who love it are fuckin weird"

probably

people have played chess for thousands of years, its not going to die

then its gonna be chip fights, I believe inserting chips wont give us infinite computing power, it will still need power (raw energy) to operate.

calculating a 35 move depth checkmate might cost you a few dinner

When Gotham becomes GM

probably chess gambling

This is what I hope. And it makes sense.

Chess as a tri-athlon.

1 game of Chess.

1 game of Xiangqi.

1 game of Backgammon for a tie breaker.

It has all the elements. An alternative chess and randomness. Everything everybody wants Chess to be.

1. Chess was invented in India.

2. Gambling was invented in China. Cards, dice, dominoes, etc.

Chess and gambling have been existing side by side for thousands of years.

Like oil and water, they don't mix.

They don't mix because there are no chance in chess. People don't bet on games of skills (themselves. They would bet as spectators).

They have not mixed for thousands of years.

Games of skill are not conducive to gambling, because you know who will win.

Once upon a time there is a thing called pool hustling.

Made famous by the novel and the movie The Hustler.

Pool hustling is a dead art. It is a relic of a bygone era.

With televised pool competitions, the art of hustling beginners died out.

levy rozman becoming GM

Here at the advantages.

1. I already mentioned. 2 versions of chess and chance.

2. Only 3 games to decide a championship. Short and sweet. It csn be played in reasonable time, as a recreational player plays. 1 hour on the clock. Only a maximal 6 hours determine a winner.

3. You don't have to invent another game, Fischer Random Chess or any new form of chess. You can play the games as they have been played for centuries.

4. It will bring players from all 3 games. It's the the MMA of chess.

5. Backgammon was invented in Egypt. (It's predecessor Senet is on a mural with Nefertari playing it. That's great for Black history month.) And we already have India, Europe and China.

6. I can't think of more at the moment, but I'm sure someone else will

What will not be a boom is a new version of chess, however clever.

I have my clever version too, Decoy Roy. 2 Kings, one real, one fake.

IED chess. 1 square is mined.

However clever, I don't see any new form of chess taking off.

I learned, here on Chess.com Forum

that colleges are giving out scholarships for chess, just like for sports.

I have lived long enough to see this day.

I'm glad.

Botez is bringing chess back to the street, back to face-to-face, the way it was originally played.

Meetup.com is bringing back "coffee house" chess, the way it was originally played.

What is old is new again.