In June 2011 at American Thinker, I wrote a blog to alert folks to an HBO special: Bobby Fischer Against the World. The reason I thought AT readers might like the film is because of its historical and political elements. Also, it dealt with Fischer the man, and his descent into madness. The blog is very short, and you might click on the link just to see the before-and-after photos I provided. They show the young Fischer looking like a fashion model with an attitude and the older Fischer looking like some demented hobo. In any event, in that little blog I did briefly comment on Bobby’s game: “Chess is probably a ruined sport anyway, as computers have bested carbon-based life forms. What need is there for creativity and genius when there's the brute force of gigahertz and terabytes?” By “ruined sport,” what I was probably vaguely thinking about is that a computer program could be written that would “play” all possible...(Read Full Article)