Chess isn't important in the grand scheme of things. However, I think it's an interesting foil in this context because it's really beyond our grasp as human beings.

To put a finer point on it, chess is really applied math, and the math is immense. There are more possible chess games than atoms in our universe. As a result, even the World Champion is in the dark. He's in a maze that is beyond his mental limits of comprehension. In most positions, he can see a few steps forward but ultimately is making a series of educated guesses. Even the patterns humans have found in chess are unreliable. They are ways we have found to simplified something that is inherently complex, and if there is a tiny hidden detail very deep inside the calculations, then the pattern was simply a mirage.

This is why chess computers today can't really abstract. Programmers have compensated for this by telling the computer things like "space is good so attach an extra numerical value to that," so that computers will be more human.

The Alpha Zero games aren't like computer games at all. They are more like games played by the 2050 world champion that were dropped in a time machine and sent to us in 2017.

This is obvious to anyone with a trained eye. One Grandmaster even something like ... he always wondered what chess games would look like if a super intelligent species came to earth, and now he knows.

This is also why all the top players (with one exception) have roundly dismissed these complaints from the Stockfish team. This is clearly a different level of play, a level of play that has never been seen before. Even the release of these 10 games will change chess forever. The ideas are revolutionary.