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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
I should have said les alluring to chess competition fans. Not recreational players.
Note. There is another aspect to computers being clearly the best. Forty years ago many people were arguing that it would never happen or at least not for very many years. I would think those people felt rather deflated when they turned out to be wrong
I think there are still just as many fans of human chess, but there is a definite loss of respect for the players. Even weak spectators watching online can easily see the errors, when pointed out by their computers. Players who couldn't last a handful of moves were calling Nepo an idiot for mistakes he made against Carlsen.
But there is little desire to watch two computers playing nearly perfect chess. And there is always a bit of a crisis when the top human players make too many draws. People want to see wins, and that requires mistakes. Hence the push for shorter time limits.
As for the last point, there were also many saying that computers were 5 years away from beating the world champion since the 1970s.