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Kasparov Defeats 32 Different Chess Computers 1985
"In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess
computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I
walked from one machine to the next, making my moves over a period of more
than five hours. The four leading chess computer manufacturers had sent their
top models, including eight named after me from the electronics firm Saitek.
"It illustrates the state of computer chess at the time that it didn't come
as much of a surprise when I achieved a perfect 32–0 score, winning every
game, although there was an uncomfortable moment. At one point I realized
that I was drifting into trouble in a game against one of the "Kasparov" brand
models. If this machine scored a win or even a draw, people would be quick to
say that I had thrown the game to get PR for the company, so I had to
intensify my efforts. Eventually I found a way to trick the machine with a
sacrifice it should have refused. From the human perspective, or at least from
my perspective, those were the good old days of man vs. machine chess"
(Gary Kasparov, "The Chess Master and the Computer" The New York
Review of Books 57 February 11, 2010.
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