We will have to return to definitions then. Can you have a game without players? Can you have a player without intentions? It is like arguing whether the Face on Mars is really a face. It is not the product of intention, but it does indeed look like a face. Is looking like a face enough for it to be a face? Deep Blue “plays chess” if you define chess as occurring whenever there is a conformance to certain appearances. But if chess requires the presence of a mind possessing certain minimal concepts and intentions, then Deep Blue in itself does not play chess.
We will have to return to definitions then. Can you have a game without players? Can you have a player without intentions? It is like arguing whether the Face on Mars is really a face. It is not the product of intention, but it does indeed look like a face. Is looking like a face enough for it to be a face? Deep Blue “plays chess” if you define chess as occurring whenever there is a conformance to certain appearances. But if chess requires the presence of a mind possessing certain minimal concepts and intentions, then Deep Blue in itself does not play chess.