what would you envision the future of chess to be like?

it would be interesting to hear the thoughts of users and how they would imagine or estimate how the future of chess will be in general regardless if its online or simply otb

I don't know.

By 2155 the world championship will be a theatre sport variant, with 2.5 minute games completed by GM's cloned AIs screaming notation and meme insults at each other, and judged out of 10 by a small but dedicated online fanbase with ever decreasing attention spans.

I guess that can happen.

I foresee chess on bars and coffee shops. Table and bar tops will have touch screen to play online chess.

Me will be a GM

I guess, in the future, robots will dominate chess. Especially that one dam' fish we still can't beat.

You should try Spike the chess engine.

with decreasing demand, the world championship becomes obsolete

a 10 min game is considered very slow

a 15 sec game is normal

noobs play horribly(due to time)

and 30% of the people leave, calling their game(60 min chess) "real chess" and calling the main game as "bullet"

these people are shunned by the others as being boomers, though most of them are young people who want to return to classical chess (with randomized openings)

then around 2200 the second type of people surpass the 1st one in number who are now playing 1 secs with 1 sec increment

around 2300, a world conflict is fought over this

and at 2500 the great chess conflict ends with a classical victory

I guess I'm going to be called a noob years later.

our 3rd eye are all opened👁Chess will be too easy for us. No one will play chess

I see online match between players from bars and players from coffee shops. Coffee shop players wins by landslide.

15|10 chess 960 played online with cameras

Online games will be played with camera. No more accusation of cheating.

The game itself will just advance like it is now.

Subtle endgame tricks, minor improvements in middle game positions - it is going to be even more structural and I feel AlphaZero's style of playing will enter the limelight among human players who are starting to grasp it in its entirety.

For the viewer, chess will be a spectacular sport to watch. It will be an interactive experience with links to famous similar moves and related games from the database that can be dynamically replayed.

Next to the footage of the event there will be a digital twin where the two players' avatars battle it out on an immersive AR playground that everyone can attend. With every notable move, the system will highlight what kind of move it was Street Fighter style (e.g. En-passant discovered check + Windmill Engaged Combo). There will be inflatable or robotic animals flying around as the player's mascots (sponsored by Festo or Boston Dynamics), after checkmate there are fireworks, etc.

Everybody is talking about time controls and such, but how about an engine gets developed to a point where it just solves the game and most people lose interest... seems quite logical.

it does not seem quite logical to me. I mean if chess becomes "too easy solvable" for an engine, it does not mean chess will be "too easy solvable" for us.

once chess is too easy for us, which I doubt since 50% of all people can't even point their own country on the worldmap, there will just be more interest in shorter games. with 1 minute on the clock even engines won't play perfect I guess 0_o

anyways my prediction of future chess: there will be more tournaments where each player has to make every move within a certain amount of time (15 seconds for example) so spectators don't get bored during the game. and oh about watching their games...holography

Cheat detection bot will be almost flawless. Chess Analytics will be applied to all players.

I’m thinking it’s going to be even more dynamic than today’s chess. Exchange sacrifices won’t even be considered sacrifices anymore. More flank openings, more messy positions just to try to get the opponent out of prep. The Najdorf will have a drawing line that strikes everyone as just as boring as the Berlin draw. People are going to become more relaxed with endgames and offer draws earlier and earlier until another Magnus Carlsen comes along and reminds everyone that it’s hard for a human to draw a drawn endgame

there will be alot of chess tournaments near me