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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Kind of also something that changed with the advent of the internet.

Chess was popular for most of its history as a game where you basically only got better by playing and genuinely trying to work out better strategies. At best, you had some chess club or a book at hand.

Now, you could spend every day just reading up on different strategies and counters, and there'd still be someone more serious about it.

I guess, on the flipside, that makes it easier to not take it as serious anymore and we have ELO-based match-up systems now as well, so you'll more easily find someone on your level.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

we have ELO-based match-up systems

I don't know, they look a little mismatched what with all the different instruments.