What became of this?

[MJMcCready]

It's a long time ago but wasn't there one with the same name that moved the pieces? What happened to them? I'm assuming that Spassky was the first world champion to have a computer named/patented after him but stand to be corrected of course.

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[Gerard Killoran]

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Boris

[MJMcCready]

Thanks, and so to ask again, wsa Spassky the first world champion to have a computer named after him?

[Roger de Coverly]

Thanks, and so to ask again, wsa Spassky the first world champion to have a computer named after him?

It didn't play chess, but there was a gadget called Tolinka which was a database and display system.
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Tolinka allegedly means "little Anatoly"

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/27/arch ... s-for.html

The secret weapon? It is an experimental chess computer dubbed “Tolinka” (Little Anatoly), donated by a research department of the British Government. Stean says its specifications and functions cannot be disclosed but so far no computer has proved competent for use at this level of play.

[MJMcCready]

In the vacuum left by Fischer,the west turned to the iron curtain to profit from?

[Joey Stewart]

There is a story about an ancient chess computer from the 1800s or something called the turk - whoever programmed that must have been a bit of a genius as there was not even electricity in those days

[John McKenna]

The very first machine that could play chess, genuinely calculate and execute moves, was a digital electronic computer, right? Wrong!

Torres y Quevedo's rook endgame automaton -

https://en.chessbase.com/post/torres-y- ... -automaton