Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds For The Better

The intended audience to this piece is people who have played chess and for those who want to know how it has changed. Then this is also for the next generation of people to know that it is not just a board with pieces but can be played on their beloved computers, smart phones, or other electronic devices.

Chess is On the Rise Chess is a very beautiful sport that is on the rise, and it is the computer that is changing the quite humanly game for the good of the sport. The game was played for hundreds of years between humans until it was modified by the computer. In Clive Thompson article “Smarter than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better,” he talks about how the computer has revolutionized the chess industry. In his writing, Clive says that computers do not just change the sport, but help

When you play against easy people or computers, the game may seem very simple, but that is just not the case. He explains that if you ever change the difficulty of the computer opponent too hard, or challenge an opponent that knows the game well, the match would be much more different than what you would have expected. The length of these matches can also take a lengthy amount of time depending on what level the players are at. Let’s say you have some amateurs playing, the games that they play could range from ten to twenty-five minutes because they do not really think progressively about their next move, but if you had some master class chess champions with the ability to consult a computer that would help them with every single move, these type of games could last up to the full hour limit. Thompson is saying that the main point is that the computers made the games much more troublesome to deal with when playing. With this new system, it has made the entire game of chess much more difficult, but a whole lot more