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Scotch versus Vodka
===Scotch versus Vodka===
David Levy further on a second KRPKR bet in ''[[Computer http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-85538-2 Chess Compendium]and Computers], The Endgame'', pp. 293132-294133: Being rather greedyIn December 1974, when my wife and I were visiting Moscow, I made a similar the same bet with [[Vladimir Arlazarov|Dr. Arlazarov]] of [[Kaissa]] fame during the [[WCCC 1977|1977 World Computer Championship]] in Toronto. This time I did not wish to corrupt him with the offer of a cash bet was and so I suggested a case wager of twelve bottles of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_whisky ScotchVodka vodka] (if I lostwon) against a case twelve bottles of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka VodkaScotch_whisky Scotch]. We agreed that The period of the bet was to expire at the end of 1975, and the arbiter was to be Grandmaster [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Averbakh Yuri Averbakh]<ref>[https://ruchess.ru/news/report/yuriy_averbakh_/ Yuri Averbakh. Biography (in Russian)]</ref> , President of the U.S.S.R. Soviet Chess Federation and a renowned one of the world's leading endgame expert, would act as arbiterexperts. Just about one year later I heard suggested to Averbakh that I owed Arlazarov a case he give the program the task of Scotchwinning two or three theoretically won positions, with him playing the defence, and section that he tried to win against the program from two or three different theoretically drawn positions <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Averbakh Yuri Averbakh] ('''1976'''). ''The Bet.'' in [https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%E2%80%94_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0 Znanie - sila], No. 8, pp. 53-54</ref> .3 Just after the beginning of this compendium describes how he and his colleagues collected the wager 1976 I received a telegram from Moscow saying: "[[Kaissa|KAISSA]] successfully examined by Averbakh on December 27th" <ref>[[Vladimir Arlazarov]], [[Aaron L. Futer]] ('''1979'''). ''Computer Analysis of a Rook End-Game''. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm/MI/mi9.html Machine Intelligence 9] (eds. [[Jean Hayes Michie]], [[Donald Michie]] and L.I. Mikulich), pp. 361-371. Ellis Horwood, Chichester. Reprinted in [[Computer Chess Compendium]], already in August 1977 following paper appeared in Russian: [http://www.mathnet.ru/php/person.phtml?option_lang=eng&personid=55935 A. G. Alexandrov], [http://www.mathnet.ru/php/person.phtml?option_lang=eng&personid=96113 A. M. Baraev], [http://www.mathnet.ru/php/person.phtml?option_lang=eng&personid=96114 Ya. Yu. Gol'fand], [[Edward Komissarchik]], [[Aaron L. Futer]] ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.mathnet.ru/php/archive.phtml?wshow=paper&jrnid=at&paperid=7425&option_lang=eng Computer analysis of rook end game]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_and_Remote_Control Avtomatika i Telemekhanika], No. 8, 113–117, and further in 1977 [http://www.mathnet.ru/php/person.phtml?option_lang=eng&personid=55935 A. G. Alexandrov], [[Vladimir Arlazarov]], [http://www.mathnet.ru/php/person.phtml?option_lang=eng&personid=96113 A. M. Baraev], [http://www.mathnet.ru/php/person.phtml?option_lang=eng&personid=96114 Ya. Yu. Gol'fand], [https://zbmath.org/authors/?q=ai:deza.v-n V. N. Deza], [https://zbmath.org/authors/?q=ai:ilina.t-p T. P. Il’ina], [[Edward Komissarchik]], [[Anatoly Uskov]], [https://zbmath.org/authors/?q=ai:faradzhev.i-a I. A. Faradzhev], [[Aaron L. Futer]] ('''1977'''). ''[https://zbmath.org/?q=an:03653550 Processing of large files of information on the example of the analysis of the rook’s end game]''. [http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/11086 Programming and Computer Software], No. 3</ref> .
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