 Poole views the board on a computer screen and dictates his moves orally to HAL using descriptive notation.Poole, playing white, is not surprised when the presumed infallible supercomputer soundly defeats him.In , no particular chess game is depicted, although it is mentioned that the astronauts can play chess and other games with HAL, and that, for the purpose of morale, the computer is programmed to temper its superiority by winning only 50% of games.