So, we will be able to enjoy the games of chess tournaments for many more decades to come. David Deutsch, even quantum computers (which are the fastest computers but at concept stage only as on today) will not be able to solve the game of chess because of the branching ability of chess algorithms. Chess provides huge innovation opportunities and even present day fastest computers are not able to explore it fully. But if the reigning champion is able to re-invent himself by developing altogether new thinking system or repair faults (if any) in his previous system, he is the one who offers a surprise and saves his kingdom (few such examples are Alekhine, Botvinnik, Kasparpov & Anand). But another explanation is that in the process of challenging (rise of career and then candidates matches), the new challenger comes up with a new thinking system of his own ahead of existing systems (at least in some aspects) and yet not well analyzed giving current champion a surprise. How a World Champion gets defeated by a new challenger? One explanation is that due to age or health factor, the reigning champion has not been able to give his best. Note: We sincerely thank the visitors whose deep interest in our site has made our number of page views cross 1 Lac mark today on 31 October 2013 (70648 for CTS + 29369 for CTS2 = 1,00,017, a milestone for a chess theory site) and we also thank the major sites who have included us in their links collection like
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