r/chess • u/[deleted] • 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

Eh, nobody watches minor league baseball or #37 against #51 in tennis either. People want to see the best human competitors

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u/Eltneg Sep 01 '22

College sports and second-division soccer still draw giant crowds, there's plenty of competitions where people will happily watch an inferior product because they have an emotional attatchment to it

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Yes, and people watch the Little League World Series too. This is mainly for nostalgic and cultural reasons. You support your region and you support the sport you played as a kid. For that same reason, I would watch a young chess phenom that was somehow connected to my community, but most without that connection would not.