In the 1980s I read an article in Chess Life magazine that predicted the day when every possible move and countermove will be worked out by computers and there would be nothing left to discover in chess.
The article lamented that when that happens we will lose a very good friend (chess).
I suppose if we’re not there yet, we’re approaching that time.
we’re at least two decades past that point
humans can no longer compete with computers in anything that can be reduced to pure computation
if you want to defeat a computer at something, you need to introduce elements for which mere computation is insufficient to evaluate them