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UndefeatedGOAT posted...

pvp games are ruined when the expression and personality is taken away, chess is literally all memorizing openings and meta shit

That doesn't eliminate expression and personality, just refines it to what makes sense. The Novelty still persists.

That being said, there is the initial impression of a more varied, open problem-solving novelty that is lost with depth. This is true of any competition of significant potential depth, given enough investment, but it does adjust the parameters of what the typical player puts into chess. You start with that problem-solving joy, but if you go far enough, all of that is trivialized and put to the wayside. The arithmetic doesn't turn into calculus, it turns into a hard drive capacity contest.