It doesn’t matter if you hate chess, you must check out this chess playing applet. The gimick? While the computer is thinking, you can see the lines representing the different moves it is considering – color coded for you and the machine. Very, very cool. Very interesting to see which moves take longer for it to figure out than others. And pretty. [via #!/usr/bin/girl]
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