G.M. Michael Adams was trounced 5.5–0.5 by Hydra, the new Chess
super-machine player. This machine is said to be unbeatable, we have to
see the next matchs against humans. Hydra is one reason to believe that
Chess needs a fast evolution. Chess can mantain its popularity for a long
time, but many people can begin to think on other games in which humans
can be competitive. The problem with Chess is that this game has been
over-studied, and its whole essence has been completely extracted. You put
on the carpet other game, and software-hardware designers are going to need
many years to produce an extremely high-level electronic player. You put on
scene a Meta-Chess idea, like we do in TCVP, and, perhaps, we can expect
powerful machine competitors, but, very probably, not unbeateble in each
type of game, because extreme high level software is, usually, based on a
theory developed through many years and positional evaluations product of
many years of observations, additioned with brut force, but brut force
alone is not enough in the majority of cases in which the game in question
is deep enough, balanced and not trivial in its positional evaluation.