I am particularly disappointed that it has influenced how people play the game.
The joy comes from the journey and the experience.
Look at competitive chess and Go and how they have fundamentally been transformed. It's not better and now the box is opened, it can't be closed.
For people like me, competitive chess killed chess long before Deep Blue. It only feels fair that competitive chess players now feel like I did :-)
I had a math professor who played competitive chess in his youth. He told me he realized the demands for competitive chess were such that he couldn't really dedicate himself to math (or any other discipline) at the same time. So one day, he gave up chess - and refused to play it for the rest of his life.
> The joy comes from the journey and the experience.
> Look at competitive chess and Go and how they have fundamentally been transformed.
Go is better since AlphaGo. Tools are better, it's easier to learn from your games, we're better at it. The AI makes sick fucking moves and we get to see.
The journey is still there, the experience is still there.
Chess I doubt is worse off either, but I don't know chess that well.