![]() Ġ–1 Poole resigns without questioning HAL's analysis: "Yeah, looks like you're right. While HAL describes a checkmate in two moves, Poole could forestall mate two extra moves for example: 16.Qc8 Rxc8 17.h3 Nxh3+ 18.Kh2 Ng4#. After Poole's "rook to king one", HAL says: "I'm sorry Frank, I think you missed it: queen to bishop three, bishop takes queen, knight takes bishop, mate." HAL gave Black's queen move from White's perspective, although in descriptive notation it should be given from Black's perspective as "queen to bishop six". Qxa6? Spoken by Poole as "queen takes pawn", White abandons the long diagonal and slips into a forced checkmate. The film shows the game from the position illustrated, with Poole (White) contemplating his 14th move.ġ4. The fictional game played between Poole and HAL has been noted as a prescient illustration of artificial intelligence and computer chess, fields which developed more rapidly following the release of 2001.īlack capitalizes on White's mistake on move 12. Chess writers have therefore attributed the fictional game fragment to the real one, equating the two and suggesting that the former derived from the latter. The board positions and moves made are identical with the conclusion of a real game: Roesch– Schlage, Hamburg 1910, which was reported in a 1955 collection of short games by Irving Chernev. The game is shown continuously and legibly for several seconds in a single shot. Stanley Kubrick, director of 2001, was an avid chess player. ![]() Poole resigns the game once HAL indicates a certain path to checkmate however, the move which HAL suggests Frank might make is not forced. ![]() Each player takes turns during a game in progress, making their moves orally using descriptive notation and natural language. Astronaut Frank Poole (White) plays the supercomputer HAL 9000 (Black) using a video screen as a chessboard. HAL 9000 is a chess game depicted in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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