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New Section for the Computer Era?

I'd argue that the rise of chess engines warrants an entirely new section, since they have radically transformed chess in a way not seen, arguably, since castling was standardized. The cutoff date would probably be somewhere around 1987, the introduction of Chessbase, which also lines up with the reign of Kasparov, one of its early adopters and promoters.

This is further supported by the additional development of online chess, which has now overtaken over-the-board chess as the "primary" way people play it. The shortened time controls, streaming, and fast news cycle all make the modern era radically different from 1945, the start of "The Post-War Era." Right now, we have just one sentence about all this, but there should be lots of information, including the Covid Pandemic, the two chess booms caused by The Queen's Gambit and Mittens, respectively, etc. Sitbear (talk) 00:12, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A few years ago, some stuff about the computer era was added to the History section of Chess. So it would make sense to beef up this article, as well. Bruce leverett (talk) 02:32, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did a lot of "beefing up." Created two headers for the Kasparov/Computer Era and the Carlsen/Online Chess Era, and added information about the rise of computer chess (including Deep Blue & Chessbase), Carlsen's dominance, the popularity of chess servers like chess.com/lichess/ICC, new chess media landscape (including Hikaru/Levy), and finally NNUE enhancements and Alphazero/Stockfish/Komodo. Needs cleaning up, but I think I got most of the important points on there. Sitbear (talk) 13:46, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]