at the time and in NUMBER_TOKEN a team of scientists programmed the maniac to play chess sort of um due to the limited amount of memory and computing power of the machine they had developed a chess variant that was played on a smaller board of six by six instead of the real chess board that is eight by eight the maniac was the first ever electrical computer to beat a human in a form of chess so it's very historically significant for that it defeated a lab assistant who had just learned the rules of chess and what's really really amazing is that we still have that game so let's just take a look at that okay so you can see here the no bishops they called this either los alamos chess or anti-clerical chess because there are no bishops because they had to play on this very small board here the maniac program opens the game up with just this simple pawn move here and it it looks weird to look at just like this um and i'll just uh go through the game here you can see it's really tough to even try to evaluate what's going on because it's it's not really chess you know but it's still quite interesting so this move was apparently a mistake and basically the human should have been able to get a an advantage here but because it was a new guy he just learned the rules and maybe also because it's a weird chess variant uh he didn't play the best attack from here against the computer so the computer starts just pushing this pawn uh probably because because it's somewhere in this program it says you know the closer the pawn is to the back rank the more points i have and it's not able to calculate uh to any significant depth so what's the problem well it has no idea that the pawn is just going to be captured by black here so it tries to come in with the with the queen there's a check and we see here the laws of the pawn and an exchange of the pieces now uh black is threatening checkmate in one and the machine sees that and protects the human is just fiddling about with this rock and now the machine wins a pawn here there's a check and from here we actually see that uh the computer is actually playing quite well so here we could maybe even made a we made a knight with check but queen is probably the best and check and you can see that it's actually just playing the quickest uh checkmate here and do you see the move do you see how a human was first beaten in just by a machine it's checkmate like that with the knight so isn't that just absolutely amazing that we have that game i mean how cool is that okay back to the story
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