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Current ICGA-President and [|International Master] David Levy is also well known about his famous bet with John McCarthy in 1968, that within the next ten years no chess program would beat him in a tournament match. Levy won the bet in 1978, winning a match against Chess 4.7 in [|Toronto]. He drew the first one, won game 2 and 3, lost game 4 and finally won game 5 and the match with 3½ - 1½.

=Photos=  =Games=
 * [[image:3-1.computer_chess.david_levy.102634530.lg.jpg width="512"]] ||
 * David Levy ponders next move against Chess 4.7 ||
 * [[file:levy_chess_1978.pgn|Plain PGN-text]]

First game and short analyze on Lichess.org : [] =Levy versus Chess 1979= The Levy versus Chess **4.8** match played in [|Hamburg], February 07, 1979, was introduced to a greater audience in the German television [|ZDF], featured by journalists Frederic Friedel and [|Volker Arzt]. code [Event "ZDF"] [Site "Hamburg"] [Date "1979.02.07"] [Round "1"] [White "David Levy"] [Black "Chess 4.8"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]
 * [[image:ChessLevy1979zdf.jpg width="512" link="WCCC 1986#Video"]] ||
 * David Levy and Chess 4.8 finally shake hands ||

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.d4 g4 5.Bxf4 gxf3 6.Qxf3 Nc6 7.d5 Qf6 8.dxc6 Qxb2 9.Bc4 Qxa1 10.Bxf7+ Kd8 11.O-O Qg7 12.Bd5 Bc5+ 13.Be3 Bxe3+ 14.Qxe3 dxc6 15.Rf7 Qh6 16.Qd4 cxd5 17.Qxh8 Qb6+ 18.Kf1 Qxb1+ 19.Kf2 Qxc2+ 20.Kg3 Qd3+ 21.Rf3 Qxe4 22.Qxg8+ Kd7 23.Qg7+ Kc6 24.Rc3+ Kb5 25.Rb3+ Ka4 26.Qc3 Qg4+ 27.Kf2 Qc4 28.Ra3+ Kb5 29.Qa5+ Kc6 30.Rc3 Be6 31.Qa4+ Kd6 32.Rxc4 dxc4 33.Qb4+ Kc6 34.Qa4+ b5 35.Qa6+ Kd7 36.Qxb5+ Kd6 37.Qb4+ c5 38.Qd2+ Kc7 39.Qh6 Bg8 40.Qg7+ Kc6 41.g4 a6 42.Qf6+ Kb5 43.Qd6 Kb4 44.Qb6+ Ka3 45.Qc6 Rf8+ 46.Ke3 Rb8 47.Qxa6+ Kb2 48.Qd6 Ra8 49.Qd2+ Ka3 50.h4 Ra6 51.g5 Ra8 52.h5 Re8+ 53.Kf4 Ra8 54.Ke5 Ra6 55.g6 hxg6 56.hxg6 Ra8 57.Kf6 Ra4 58.Kg7 Ra8 59.Qg2 Rd8 60.Qc6 Rd3 61.Qa6+ Kb4 62.Kxg8 Ra3 63.Qb6+ Kc3 64.g7 Rxa2 65.Kf7 Rf2+ 66.Ke7 Rg2 67.Qf6+ Kc2 68.Qf5+ Kb2 69.Kf7 c3 70.Qe5 c4 71.Qb5+ Kc1 72.Qxc4 Rxg7+ 73.Kxg7 c2 74.Kf6 Kd2 75.Qd4+ Kc1 76.Ke5 Kb1 77.Qb4+ Ka2 78.Qc3 Kb1 79.Qb3+ Ka1 80.Qa4+ Kb2 81.Qd4+ Kb1 82.Qd3 Kb2 83.Qb5+ Kc3 84.Qc5+ Kb2 85.Qb6+ Ka1 86.Qg1+ Kb2 87.Qb6+ Ka1 88.Qg1+ Kb2 89.Qb6+ Ka1 {3-fold repetition} code

=See also=
 * Levy versus Cray Blitz 1984
 * Levy versus Deep Thought 1989
 * The Levy Bet

=Publications=
 * David Levy (**1978**). //How I won//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2
 * David Levy (**1979**). //How I beat the monster//. [|Elektor], January 1979

=External Links=
 * [|Not Bad-for A Machine - David Levy won his 1968 bet that no computer would beat him in the next 10 years, but Chess 4.7 didn't roll over] by [|Jim Kaplan], September 18, 1978, [|SI Vault]
 * [|Computer chess history – knowledge vs brute force] by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, March 21, 2017

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