 Who is putting on the chess tournament? Why?
What the Machine can do is examine all the likely lines of play for about eight moves ahead—that is, four moves each for White and Black—and then decide which is the best move on the basis of capturing enemy pieces, working toward checkmate, establishing a powerful central position and so on." Flesh-and-blood chess masters have lost games by blunders they could have avoided by looking only one or two moves ahead. This tournament is being played at the usual international rate of 15 moves an hour, and—" "Is that why they've got all those crazy clocks?"
 WBM—to test the efficacy of their machine.
 WBM—to test the efficacy of their machine.  Dr. Krakatower—to beat WBM’s chess ma Co own once and for all.  WBM—to being down Russia’s chess mastery.  WBM—to test the accuracy of their chess machine’s emotional programming.