“No machine has ever bested a human being at playing chess… or any other game… because machines cannot ‘play’ anything at all. They lack minds, motivations, perspectives and intention. Without these, no ‘play’ can be taking place.

It is a category error to claim that a machine ‘plays’ a game, since what is actually going on is nothing more than advanced computation. This has nearly nothing to do with chess, or any other game. It is simply a computationally ‘simulated player’; a device and algorithms that use numerical analysis on the fate-map of a specific gaming context. This is usually informed by a vast library of games played by humans, or, in some cases, fate-maps elaborated by a machine computing against itself or other machines.

Only beings can play games. Simulations, especially mere simulations of functions are not (and cannot be) beings.”

— an anonymous informant