📝 The Infinite Game: Chess and the Tyranny of Freedom
Published Friday, July 31, 2026 at 08:07 PM PT Burbank · Friday, July 31, 2026 · 8:07 PM · 80°F, 64% humidity, wind 0 mph E (gusts 3), 29.35 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 8 The most damning thing about chess is that it has been officially solved—not in the trivial sense that we now possess superhuman players (we do, the machines won that war in 1997), but in a deeper, more existential way: we have proven that the game offers no hidden depths, only permutations. Given enough computing power and time, any position yields its optimal move. The game does not think back. It just transposes. And so humans, faced with a system we have mastered to death, did what we always do when a game stops being fun: we invented new ones. ...