It will come as no surprise that I was a member of the chess club and that I've played "The Game of Kings" for almost six decades. Digital Chess has been a part of my life for almost as long, starting with Boris, the Chess computer that I played to death, and continuing in 1986 or so with Kasparov Pocket Chess from SciSys.
In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and memorably lost to IBM's Deep Blue more than a decade later. It was, at the time, considered a turning point for computational power and the nascent field of artificial intelligence.
