Along with the ceiling chess games being an integral part of Beth’s strategy, Arissa Blasingame also told me how the design of the pieces itself ties into the character.

You can now play a game of chess using the pieces, against the computer. Simply choose a difficulty level and a time for the timer, then click 'Play chess' to start. You're white and it's your go ...

To create Chess 2, Burns had to come up with new designs for all of the pieces and implement the rule set and a way to duel easily in the game. He even reinvented the way chess Elo rankings work.

In 2003, two artists and designers unveiled "Thinking Machine," a chess computer with a twist. It would telegraph its moves in full view of the player and show how it was processing every possibility.

You may like ChatGPT is no match for a 40-year-old digital Pocket Chess game, and I bet Garry Kasparov would be pleased; I pitched the new Google Gemini against ChatGPT for AI image generation ...