Move 36 refers to the spectacular and decisive move made by the computer Deep Blue against world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. The encounter can be defined as a match between the greatest chess player who ever lived and the greatest chess player who never lived. What is truly remarkable about the event is that for the first time in history a machine beat a human at chess. The idea of giving machines some of man's cognitive abilities goes back at least to the eighteenth century: Baron Kempelen's chess-playing "automaton" defeated several humans and gave the public the illusion that it was conscious, and many people began to doubt that it was a machine. […]