Chess
The world was amazed, in the late eighteenth century, by a machine that had the astonishing ability to play a good game of chess. It entertained kings and queens. It defeated Napoleon, a master tactician. Hundreds of people paid to compete against it, but eventually it was revealed that a small man was hidden inside the machine. A chess-playing machine remained only a dream until the late 1950s when the first computer chess game was played. Now, the World Computer Championship, held every three years since 1974, attracts almost as much publicity as the human championship matches. Why has there been so much interest in machines that play games? One reason is that chess can be used to measure a computer's intelligence. Chess is easy to play, but difficult to master.- So difficult, in fact, that some experts believe that a computer would have to be almost as intelligent as a human to become world champion
ESRB Rating: Not Rated
Genre(s): Board
