Later. Right now let's play Global Thermonuclear War. What's the tie between artificial intelligence and chess? As far back as the late 1700s inventors were trying to impress their audiences with automated chess players (automatons with a hidden human doing the chess playing, only they didn't tell the audiences that). In the 1940s, Alan Turing wrote out the directions for building a theoretical chess program, breaking the game down into computable parts. But why chess? What makes it different than, say, tic-tac-toe? Computers are great at tactical thinking; 1s and 0s lend themselves to that. Programming strategic thinking is more complicated, but possible. After all, Joshua figured out that the only winning move was not to play. Chess is special for a couple of reasons. It's something that everyone can theoretically play, but only the cleverest can win. The Grand Masters seem to have a grasp of all the calculations necessary to predict outcome, but also some ineffable quality th
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