Learn the top 10 openings for White — and the best responses for Black.
Deep Thought computed the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.
Chess has been computing ever since, and still hasn't finished.
"I checked it very thoroughly, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
The same is true of chess openings. You must first understand what you are trying to achieve, before the moves make any sense.
"Hactar was a vast Think-O-Mat computer designed to calculate the trajectory of a very small bullet. The bullet was never fired. Hactar had too much time to think, and thinking led him to chess."