Astronaut Frank Poole VS Supercomputer HAL 9000

#agadmator Amazing game. Nice choice Mr. Kubrick 🙂
Original scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzIQUDQO-ag

Poole versus HAL 9000 is a fictional chess game in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Astronaut Dr. Frank Poole is seen playing a recreational game of chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer. Poole views the board on a computer screen and dictates his moves orally to HAL using descriptive notation. Poole is not surprised when the presumed infallible supercomputer soundly defeats him.

In the novel, no particular chess game is depicted, although it is mentioned that the astronauts can play chess and other games with HAL, and that, for the purpose of morale, the computer is programmed to temper its superiority by winning only 50% of games.

The film’s director Stanley Kubrick was a passionate chess player, so unlike many chess scenes shown in other films, the position and analysis make sense. The actual game seems to come from a tournament game between A. Roesch and W. Schlage, Hamburg 1910.

Astronaut Frank Poole VS Supercomputer HAL 9000
(Roesch vs Willi Schlage)
“I can’t let you do that, Dave.” (game of the day Mar-24-2008)
Hamburg (1910), Hamburg GER
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Wormald Attack (C77)

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Qe2 b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. c3 O-O 8. O-O d5 9. ed5 Nd5 10. Ne5 Nf4 11. Qe4 Ne5 12. Qa8 Qd3 13. Bd1 Bh3 14. Qxa6 Bxg2 15. Re1 Qf3

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