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| Robotic Chess Expert | ||
| A robot that plays chess at a level that no human can match. |
This is the first reference that I am aware of that refers to computers or robots as being unbeatable at chess.
| In the screen a man was sitting before a chess table. The pieces were in mid-game. Across the board stood a beautifully machined robotic.
The man reached out a hand, thoughtfully played a knight. The robotic clicked and chuckled. It moved a pawn... "Mr. Benton hasn't won a game in the past ten years..." "... Benton must have known, when he had Oscar fabricated, that Oscar would beat him," Sutton pointed out. "A human simply can't beat a robotic expert." |
| Technovelgy from Time Quarry,
by Clifford Simak. Published by Galaxy in 1950 Additional resources -
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It didn't happen until 1997 that a computer beat a world champion within standard tournament rules. (Deep Blue vs. Kasparov).
See the autonomoton chessplayer from Ambrose Bierce's 1910 short story Moxon's Master.
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