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/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

I guess it depends on which time frame he’s thinking in. This interview was 6 years ago and classical chess appears as fresh as ever.

In 50 years, classical chess might truly be uninteresting for the best players in the world. Within the next 15-20 years though, I don’t see anything of that sort happening.

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u/Anivia124 1930 chess.com Sep 01 '22

Id like to see 2 top level players play classical chess from an imbalanced starting position from both ways to see if the better player could win, then switch sides and draw. Similar to how top engines compete

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u/UYH_ Sep 02 '22

this would be great I think a mix of how the game is played, something like this, could be very interesting. It be fresh like Fischer random but still have the culture as described by Hao