David Levy

David Neil Laurence Levy (born 14 March 1945 in London, England) is a British International Master of chess, a businessman noted for his involvement with computer chess and artificial intelligence, and the founder of the Computer Olympiads and the Mind Sports Olympiads.

He has written more than 40 books on chess and computers. He achieved international fame with a 1968 bet against Artificial Intelligence experts that no computer would beat him for ten years. In 1978 he had won the bet, and in 1979 German TV made a well-received documentary on the bet.

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Bobby Fischer in Iceland – 45 years ago (14)

9/7/2017 – Back in 1972 it was no trivial task to produce a book very quickly. Especially not a chess book, which required special diagrams for which there were no fonts. When IM and author David Levy came up with the idea of producing a book on the Reykjavik Spassky-Fischer match, and deliver 100,000 copies in New York within 96 hours of the end of the match, that sounded quite outlandish. But he managed to pull it off. It is an interesting fact that Levy and the author Svetozar Gligoric actually knew the final move and result of the match before Fischer.
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