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Robert Hyatt



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PostPost subject: Re: Chess computers in popular culture    Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:19 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
Tord Romstad wrote:
It probably doesn't qualify as popular culture, but Gene Wolfe -- my favorite living author -- has written a short story named The Marvellous Brass Chessplaying Automaton. The story is set some time in the future, at a time when technology has regressed compared to today. People still remember the age of computers, but the art of making them has been forgotten. It is widely assumed that no working computers remain. But there are rumors that a single computer still survives in a remote German village: A dedicated chess computer.

I won't spoil the story, in case somebody wants to read it. It's included in the short story collection The Best of Gene Wolfe (which, albeit very good, isn't really the best of Gene Wolfe, because his novels are better than his short stories).


Off topic, but you ought to try one of Matt Reilly's books. Fastest-paced books I have ever read, and I have read a _lot_ in 50+ years...
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Chess computers in popular culture Julien MARCEL Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:39 pm
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