Kasparov Chess goes for mobile checkmate

The chess world is more interesting than we thought, judging by recent stories of dancefloor fights between top players competing for the attention of female grandmasters.

You wouldn't have caught Garry Kasparov doing that in his heyday. And so, sadly, Glu Mobile's just-announced Kasparov Chess mobile game won't feature any nightclub punch-ups.

It will, however, offer an international multiplayer mode that'll let you challenge other players around the world. Let's hope they don't sell it in the various former Russian republics, or us Brits will have no chance of winning any games.

Glu is keeping its cards (or castles?) close to its chest on other features in the game, which isn't due out until early 2007.

The announcement does quote Kasparov himself talking about the game's chess engine, so we're guessing even in single-player mode, it'll provide a stern test for those of us who are part-time pawnographers.

Garry Kasparov's feats include defeating World Champion Anatoly Karpov in 1985, when just 22 years old, to become the youngest World Champion, and a series of highly publicized matches versus IBM's Deep Blue AI and its follow-ups.