Author: Charles Milton Ling
Date: 18:14:33 01/18/99
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It was 1979. I had borrowed a chess computer from a friend (I wish I could remember what its name was) and enjoyed beating it every which way. It had a kind of "infinite analysis" feature. I entered a position from one of my more recent games with a forced mate in 4, the kind a good player sees in about 15 seconds (Anand in 15 milliseconds), and went off to a tournament in Biel. After about 3 days of intense cogitation, the machine beeped in delight in the middle of the night, waking my mother, who was greatly impressed: she wrote me a postcard, even stating what the little brain's display indicated. It had found a way to regain the pawn I had sacrificed for the killer attack, the mate was apparently way beyond its horizon... Nostalgically, Charley
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