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Quote by [[John McCarthy]] from ''AI as Sport'' <ref>[[John McCarthy]] ('''1997'''). ''AI as Sport''. Science, Vol. 276, June 6, pp. 1518-1519.</ref><ref>[http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/newborn/newborn.html AI as Sport] by [[John McCarthy]]</ref>:
Besides AI work aimed at tournament play, particular aspects of the game have illuminated the intellectual mechanisms involved. [[Barbara Liskov]] demonstrated that what chess books teach about how to win certain [[Endgame|endgames]] is not a program but more like a predicate comparing two positions to see if one is an improvement on the other. Such qualitative comparisons are an important feature of human intelligence and are needed for AI. [[Donald Michie]], [[Ivan Bratko]], [[Alen Shapiro]], [[David Wilkins]], and others have also used chess as a Drosophila to study intelligence. [[Monroe Newborn|Newborn]] ignores this work, because it is not oriented to tournament play.
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