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[[FILE:levywccc77.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/mov-433190c268f04/| [[David Levy]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/1977_WCCC_Toronto.102645433/index.php?iid=mov-433190c268f04 / 1977 World Computer Chess Championship, Toronto, Canada], Footage excerpted from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_%28TV_series%29 Nova] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nova_episodes#Season_5:_1978 episode 0509] ''The Mind Machines'', 1978, [[The Computer History Museum]]
[[David Levy]]: The crowd tonight is absolutely phenomenal, I've never seen a crowd like this before at a computer chess tournament and there's certainly about twice as many people here as ever go to watch the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Open_Chess_Championship US Open Championship] or the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Chess_Championship United States Closed Championship], even when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer Fischer] was playing. I think that probably most of you are having a good laugh tonight and you're here out of curiosity, but in a few years time you'll be here because these programs are playing better then the masters and grand masters in the US championship.</ref> ]]
