This chess machine, on display at the MoMA’s design exhibition, is not a regular one. From a given situation, it tells you all the possible steps each character may take. In this way, it’s a few steps behind me: it tells about the possible futures of the board I play in. The chess board becomes the garden of forking paths, Borges’ famous take on the co-presence of futures, and the parallel presence of choices failing to exclude each other.