Do You Need to Be Intelligent to Play Games?

Abstract

Shall we play a game? You choose: Chess, Super Mario Bros., or Angry Birds. I'm giving you a choice because I don't know whether you are familiar with all three of them. I talked about Chess in the previous chapter: the Western's world's arguably most famous board game, played by physically moving pieces such as pawns, kings, and queens on a board with alternating black and white squares. By moving these pieces so that they threaten and capture your opponent's pieces, you can ultimately win over your opponent by surrounding her king. It has changed little since it was invented millennia ago.