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"I wrote many novels which … contained the element of the projected collective unconscious, which made them simply incomprehensible to anyone who read them, because they required the reader to accept my premise that each of us lives in a unique world."
- Philip K. Dick
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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." |
| From First He Died (Time and Again),
by Clifford Simak. Published by Dell in 1951 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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