When we have computers that can number crunch enough to beat the best humans in a game, I can't help but think that human competition in that game is no more exciting than humans competiting to do something like multiplying a bunch of large numbers together. Of course, I do believe that all human mental work is just number crunching (i.e. Turing computation), so this idea would seem to apply to all human mental competition given the right algorithms and enough computing power. Not to mention that machines can best humans in a lot of athletic events, but that doesn't seem to ruin those for me. And yet, I still just can't get excited about a discrete perfect information game like chess when computers have all but solved the game.