> Backgammon is now the first board or card game with, in effect, a machine world champion. Checkers, chess, go, and the rest will follow—and probably quite soo

> Backgammon is now the first board or card game with, in effect, a machine world champion. Checkers, chess, go, and the rest will follow—and probably quite soon. I would have laughed at how technically uninformed this opinion seems to be. Funny how vague macroscopic reasoning fared better than a detailed bottom-up reasoning with quantification of the challenge. OTOH I'm sure the New Yorker also wrote a lot of interesting to think about and not so well founded articles that didn't fare well.