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Mission possible: Computers in chess and A-level mathematics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Linda Hope
Linda Hope*
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Twenty years ago one of the plots in the TV series Mission Impossible involved a chess tournament in which Leonard Nimoy (without the pointy ears, but in every other respect identical to his Star Trek persona) won a game by obeying the instructions of a computer relayed over an earphone. While many of the antics of the Impossibles remain … impossible, it is only be a matter of time until chess computers can defeat every human being on the planet. However a chess positioninvented by David Norwood [Daily Telegraph, Weekend p.28, 7 Aug 1993] shows that the game may not yet be over for homo sapiens. The position in figure 1 could occur in actual play, but is most unlikely to.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 78 , Issue 481 , March 1994 , pp. 11 - 17
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1994

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