checkmate

I sure do miss playing chess. I'm not very good, but every once in a while I'll kick Nate's butt barely beat Nate. Now, I do manage to keep up with the "Battle Chess" program I've got on my computer, but I always get that strange feeling like I'm being humored by a superior intelligence. It turns out I am. Check out Thinking Machine 4, a chess game that diagrams the millions of thoughts a computer makes before making a move. Play a game--it's not quite Deep Blue, but it'll make you think.