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The machine was not perfect. It could be tricked. It could make mistakes. And -- it could learn!
Silently, so as not to shock anyone with illusions about well dressed young women, Sandra Lea Grayling cursed the day she had persuaded the _Chicago Space Mirror_ that there would be all sorts of human interest stories to be picked up at the first international grandmaster chess tournament in which an electronic computing machine was entered.