Author: Mark Young
Date: 01:18:54 03/24/99
I was reading RGCC and seen this topic mentioned in passing. It got me thinking about the first example of a chess player going on record stating that "no computer would ever be able to solve this position". The oldest example I could remember reading was from David Levy's book, The Chess Computer Handbook. It shows this position below, and says the Daily Telegraph Chess columnist, B. H. Wood stated that no computer would ever be able to solve positions of this complexity. [Event "Lucerne Olympiad"] [Site ""] [Date "1982.??.??"] [Round ""] [White "Csom"] [Black "Yusupov"] [Result "*"] [FEN "3r2k1/p4r2/1p1P1q2/3QpPp1/1P1pP1Pp/7P/P5K1/3R1R2 w - -"] Key move Rxd4. I assume B. H. Wood wrote this in 1982, the year the game was played. Does anyone know of older examples of chess players going on record with such claims? Who was the first Grandmaster to make such a claim? Does anyone have more positions where such claims have been made?
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