CHECK ON THE MOVE

Chess is a game where two persons sit across a low table carrying on it an open board with 64 black and white squares, set with 16 white and 16 black men, right? Not any more. Chess is much more popular today as a virtual computer game played by a solitary person challenging a virtual opponent, namely, the computer. Since you can play it on your laptop, virtual chess has developed into a travel game. 
As with the live game, the purpose of playing virtual chess is to checkmate your opponent. Here the opponent is a computer with an enormous memory bank from which it can draw pre-stored moves worked out in advance in millions of combinations. Therefore, you begin play with a huge disadvantage. Or so runs the presumption. 

The argument does not hold water owing to the ingenuity of the human brain. A flash of insight leading to a risk-laden move, for instance, is beyond the pale of computers. Ever since chess-playing computers appeared on the scene in the sixties, the computer always lost. It beat a top player for the first time only in 1996 when IBM’s Deep Blue check-mated Gary Kasparov. The theory that software can never demolish brainpower was toppled.  
Common folk like us look upon chess as a mind-game offering a modicum of intellectual challenge. We play chess at the popular level. In this regard, it is ideal as a travel game. There is no kit to carry, only the laptop. You can play as many matches as you want. The best part is that before you know it, you have nearly reached journey’s end! Even if you have lost the computer chess game you feel a winner anyway!

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