"Alex Chaihorsky" writes:

I think chess became less popular after the birth of PC (its a better toy,
IMHO)
Also the fact that today machine beats human champ played its role lately.

The machine is programmed with algorithms of human invention, is given
all that is known of human strategy, primed with studies of decades of
human competition, and this machine takes the credit?

Pah.

Cheers,

- Joel