Taikyoku Shogi
I am curious what HN has to say about a thought I reluctantly admit that I occassionally have : "There is a huge number of people on this planet wasting their mental energy (computional power) on a board game where the same amount of energy can be expended into building new ways of curing cancer or whatever important problem. What's the difference between using calories to compute unnecessary peer to peer game calculations with no goal vs. using electricity to compute hashes in crypto mining."<p>I love chess and all kinds of board games :) but I can't help thinking about stuff like this.