Maybe its just me, but I've always seen people that get extremely good at one thing to be slightly autistic.
How can you play a single game for thousands of hours without getting tired of it? To me its like watching the same movie over and over again. Even if its your favorite movie, eventually you will get bored of it.
Imagine a movie that has an infinite amount of different starts and ends.
I'd still get tired of it, same way I get tired of other board games and also plenty of video games. Theres no more sense of excitement or wonder.
Different brains, different interests.
chess doesn't have an infinite set though, that's what IBM's "deep blue" was doing: it calculated the entire tree of all possible games and chose the winning paths
I know, but to the average human mind, it sure does look like infinite.
Bullshit. Deep blue lost 2 of 6 games in the kasporov (who is not the world's greatest chess player) rematch and 3 of 6 games in their initial series.
The possible combinations are near infinite and the AI must assign a point value to each move and run through 20-30 move combinations, depending on the time given for each move, and then selects the best move based on the points system it uses. Human players can, and often do, come up with unpredicted moves which then throw the AI off making what were high scoring moves before the human's unpredictable moves into blunders that ultimately lose the game.
Even today's best AI computers still often succumb to the creativity of the world's best chess players.
What keeps one going is the competitive nature of it. Beating your opponent completely in front of everyone is extremely gratifying, and the feeling you get when you know you can still greatly improve is a big part of it.
It's also just an inherently social event. Chess, Poker, Dominoes are really just you interacting with new people and their unique style of play and just talking with them like human beings. To call a board game like chess repetitive is like saying basic conversations with your fellow man are boring. They're not, every new opponent is different.
You just can't compare board game players to some loser video game speedrunner that plays the same level; 13,000 in a row in some dark room without getting bored or burnt out ever.
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