Originally posted by greenpawn34
I'll nominate 34...Re8 as played by Kaissa.
Duchess - Kaissa. Computer W.C. Toronto, 7th August 1977.
The day computers came of age.
Where do you come up with these gems? 🙂
I did a bit of hunting on this, found Berliner's version of it here. (Page 3, first full paragraph) :
http://dli.iiit.ac.in/ijcai/IJCAI-81-VOL%201/PDF/105.pdf
(BTW, I haven't figured out who AH is in the article. ) It's interesting that he mentions Botvinnik was there along with Levy and a number of other strong players. He doesn't mention that HE was there, although maybe that was implied in the telling of the story, I'm not sure.
@GP, was Berliner really there? If so, I just find it strange that Berliner couldn't directly admit that he missed it himself. Maybe a bit of the Berliner ego at work?
Oh yeah, the full game in case anyone's interested:
[Event "2nd World Computer Chess Championship"]
[Site "Toronto, Canada"]
[Date "1977.08.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Duchess"]
[Black "Kaissa"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. d4 Nxd5 4. Nf3 g6 5. Be2 Bg7 6. c4 Nb6 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Be3 Bg4 9. c5 Nd5 10. O-O e6 11. Qb3 b6 12. Nxd5 exd5 13. Bg5 Qd7 14. h3 Bf5 15. Qc3 Re8 16. Rfe1 Be4 17. Nd2 Qf5 18. Be3 Qe6 19. Nxe4 dxe4 20. cxb6 cxb6 21. Rec1 Nd7 22. Bg4 Qd5 23. Qc6 Nf6 24. Be2 Rad8 25. Qa4 Re7 26. Bb5 Qf5 27. Rc2 Nd5 28. Rac1 Bf6 29. Qb3 a5 30. g4 Qe6 31. Rc6 a4 32. Qxa4 Rd6 33. Rxd6 Qxd6 34. Qa8+ Re8 35. Qxe8+ Kg7 36. g5 Bd8 37. Bc4 Qe7 38. Qxe7 Nxe7 39. Bf4 Nf5 40. Bd5 Kf8 41. Rc8 Ke7 42. Rc4 Ng7 43. Bxe4 Ne6 44. Be3 Nc7 45. d5 Nb5 46. Bf3 Kd7 47. a4 Nd6 48. Rc6 Nf5 1-0