Chess not covered by BBC Sport??

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I've been playing and enjoying online chess again. I renewed my ICC membership. Sometimes there aren't enough human players on the game seek chart that are looking for the kind of slow game that I like to play so I end up playing one of their computers but I enjoy it just the same. I find that when I'm playing a human there is a different feel to game for me.

I was curious about what Gary Kasparov is doing now. I did some internet reading on him and found his official website and this article that is posted on his site and written by him. I thought it was pretty good. The Chess Master and the Computer

The number of legal chess positions is 10 to the 40, the number of different possible games, 10 to the 120. Authors have attempted various ways to convey this immensity, usually based on one of the few fields to regularly employ such exponents, astronomy. In his book Chess Metaphors, Diego Rasskin-Gutman points out that a player looking eight moves ahead is already presented with as many possible games as there are stars in the galaxy. Another staple, a variation of which is also used by Rasskin-Gutman, is to say there are more possible chess games than the number of atoms in the universe. All of these comparisons impress upon the casual observer why brute-force computer calculation can’t solve this ancient board game. They are also handy, and I am not above doing this myself, for impressing people with how complicated chess is, if only in a largely irrelevant mathematical way.

Anand got $ 1.5 million for winning the World Championship and Topalov only got a mere $ 1 million. I really feel sorry for him.