On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 1:23 PM Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu wrote: Furthermore, Feng-hsiung Hsu at CMU essentially put Belle on a chip and parallelized it, resulting in the chess computer Deep Thought -- which became the first machine to defeat a human Grandmaster. It lost a historic match against the world champion Garry Kasparov, but its successor, Deep Blue, went on to defeat him. My favorite anecdote that I've read regarding Belle was when Ken Thompson took it out of the country for a competition. Someone, I'm assuming with customs, asked him if Belle could be classified as munitions in any way. He replied, "Only if you drop it out the window."