Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To James Spratt wrote on Tue, Dec 26, 2006 07:45 PM EST:No machine will ever invent a chess variant, or challenge a human to a game unless some human directs them to do so. So-called 'intelligent' machines are merely reactive, not initiative, and won't do doodle-um unless a human kickstarts them. (Shades of 'the Matrix' and 'Y2K'. Ho hum.. We da man... Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Chess is dead does not match any item.