“Lately, it has been hard not to feel a little cynical, or even nihilistic, about the prospects of human beings in the age of A.I. Why play chess, if a computer always wins?” Louisa Thomas writes. “The beauty of chess goes beyond logic; it includes desires, ideas, and feelings. That is the game’s difficulty, too.” Read more about the new age of chess. www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/af...