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<p>Robert Shimmin said:<blockquote>In all honesty, I don't think humans will lose interest in chess just because computers can beat us at it. It's already the case for the vast majority of chess-players, and yet they still play. Or to make another comparison, we didn't stop holding foot-races because we had built machines that can go faster than us. </blockquote></p> <p>I agree that casual players won't lose interest, (at least right away,) but what will change is the entire professional nature of the game. When exact refutations to every single opening can be calculated, and are published, then professional Chess will no longer be a game of Chess skill, but rather just a game of memorization. Ok, you could still try to substitute Chess skill, but a person with a fantastic memory will probalby clean your clock.</p>