AlphaZero: Will People Treat Chess the Way they Treat Tic-Tac-Toe?

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Children no longer do arithmetic: they use a pocket calculator.
Mental arithmetic competitions used to be popular, not so any more.

uh

In india we aren't allowed the use of a calculator for school/other exams till college

That's fantastic!  No wonder Indians are so good at math, engineering, and the hard sciences.

when 3x3 tic tac toe died, people iinvented 4x4 and 5x5

same with chess. even if it died(it probably will not) there will be variants and 4 player ones.

Someone must have invented those. Most just ignored the game!

More than 2-player games are an entirely different thing to 2 player games (for clarity, 2 teams counts as two players -  I mean 3 or more independent teams or players). The possibility of effective alliances makes them not a pure competition.  They are however much more accurate models for most of the real world.

What about ultimate tic-tac toe?

It wont dle, it has quadtrillions of variations

The only thing that died was this thread, 3 years ago. And now you resurrected it for absolutely no reason.