My One True God

Sender: unknown

~Your POV~

I let out a big sigh "*sigh* I finally won...somehow *sigh*"

I was so exhausted from playing game after game....what day was it again??? I look at my digital clock on my desk '8:00 am' I thought. How many days has it been since I slept...5? I yawned as my eyes started to well up. I gently brushed the forming tear away.

I let out another sigh as I flopped on my bed, I was about to close my eyes when... *DING*

I slightly opened my eyes from exhaustion, I haven't slept in 5 days?...6 days? I lost count of the days. I got up from my desk and slowly walked over to my Tablet that I heard a notification from. I looked at the Tablet 'hmmm...an email' I thought while opening it.

To: "Blank"
Sender: unknown

Have you ever felt like you were born into the wrong world?

'Huh? What is this?' I thought. Hmmm. There's a link.

I clicked on it and... it was... a game of chess? I stared at the screen confused and in disbelief for a moment, and then groaned from exhaustion. I decided I would play along for now. I sat down in front of my computer to play it on my computer.

Chess is a finite, two-player, zero sum perfect information game. Luck plays no part in it. Theoretically to each game there is a perfect solution that will never fail. Of course, that's only if you have a mind capable of calculating the 10'^120 possible states of the board.

( ^ = to the power of )

"Chess is no different than simply playing tic-tac-toe"

I've beat programs designed to defeat grandmasters 20 times in a row, alternating between going first and second. However...

"Huh? It cut off its own pieces advance"

The game made a bad move. A program will always select the best strategy. You can win 'cause they're predictable. But this one is deliberately using a bad move to lure me in. It's a human. Hmm...

If it's a contest of skill, I've got this in the bag. Now let's see if there's somebody who's got the balls to beat me.