I'm always prowling the Internet for interesting chess web sites. Recently I came across an interesting chess site with a different twist. It includes a chess engine and plays chess with you - although not at an extremely high level. But it shows you what it is thinking via colorful lines of force emminating from the pieces as they are reviewed by the chess computer.

I'd suggest you go play a game and see what you think about it, I did and the results are included below. Any player above Class C will easily understand what the computer program did wrong, thre's no need for me to annotate. But that's not the point. The point is the visual thinking display and how it shows the move selection process. It's interesting and imaginative and even artistic. The authors deserve credit for adding a new dimension. I'm sure others will follow.

[Site "Thinking Machine 4 Web Site"]
[Date "2005.06.05"]
[White "Murrel"]
[Black "Thinking Machine 4"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd4 4. Nf3 Qd8 5. d4 Bg4 6. Bb5 c6 7. Be2 Qa5 8. Bd2 Nd7 9.b4 Qd8 10. h3 Bxf3 11. Bxf3 Qb6 12. Be3 Qxb4 13. Qd2 Qb2 14. Rb1 Qa3 15. Rxb7 Qa6 16. Rxd7 Kxd7 17. d5 e5 18. dxc6 Ke6 19. Qd7 Kf6 20. Ne4 Kg6 21. Qg4 1-0

-Murrel Rhodes