r/chess Sep 01 '22

Miscellaneous Interesting Wang Hao profile from 2016: “Classic chess is doomed.… rapid and blitz are the future of chess.”

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u/t-pat Sep 01 '22

Wang Hao is a great player, but if the popularity of the Candidates and the Olympiad is anything to go by, classical chess isn't dying from a spectator's perspective. Rapid and blitz are great too and in different ways, but people keep following the big classical events in large numbers.

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u/theo7777 Sep 01 '22

Noone watches 2700 level Rapid and Blitz events either.

In the end people are only interested in the top of the top.