welcome February 10, 2003 Issue

Love and a chess match

Warren Bolon

AS THIS ISSUE into production, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov is preparing for a match with "Deep Junior," a leading computer chess program. And, in the words of singer Tina Turner, you're rightly wondering, "What's love got to do with it?" That's a fair question.

A recent New York Times story on the Kasparov Deep Junior match explained that in any chess game there are 85 billion ways of playing just the first four moves for each side. While even such an astronomical number is nowhere near infinity, that's a lot possibilities. For many people, making the right moves in romance and relationships can seem just as complicated with options, and as hope-deficient as my chances of making a good gambit against Mr. Kasparov.

When we look at life through the lens of advice-column human wisdom, the chances of lasting love happening with any frequency and certainty might seem slim. The stories in this week's issue say something different, though—and, in fact, the content of every issue points to this conclusion—that it's by changing the lens we're looking through, to a spiritual perspective, that we find a more certain good. We begin to sense the normality of loving and loved.

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