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[ David Bronstein [1] David Ionovich Bronstein, (Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006)
was an Ukrainian world-class chess grandmaster who was close to become World Chess Champion when he drew the 1951 match against Botvinnik by a score of 12–12. He was also a highly renowned writer.
Computer Chess
Bronstein became interested in artificial intelligence when he received his first lessons in computer chess from Alexander Kronrod. He and Bronstein’s friend Alexander Brudno gave a lot of valuable knowledge about the mathematical problems in connection with writing chess programs. As a grandmaster with a great interest in this subject he was asked to be an advisor to the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics when they played the famous match against Stanford University. He already played a two games against the M-20 in 1963 [2] [3]. Also in his later career, David Bronstein was open minded to play computers. He played Deep Thought and later Deep Blue and all Aegon Tournaments from 1990 until 1997, which he won in 1992 with a perfect score of 6/6 [4] , as well as the Aegon 1993 with 5.5/6. During the 8th Advances in Computer Chess Conference 1996 David Bronstein was invited speaker and told about his experiences with computers. Tom Fürstenberg was a close friend and contributed in writing the The Sorcerer’s Apprentice [5] .
Photos
Tom Fürstenberg and David Bronstein, Aegon 1991 [6]
David Bronstein vs. XXXX by Martin Zentner, Bruce Moreland watching, Aegon 1997 [7]
Quotes
Quote by Frederic Friedel in his obituary on David Bronstein [8] :
See also
Publications
Chess
- David Bronstein (1956). Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953. English Translation Dover (1979) [9]
- David Bronstein (1973). 200 Open Games. McMillan
- David Bronstein, Tom Fürstenberg (1995). The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Cadogan Books, London. ISBN 1-85744-151-6 [10]
Computer Chess
- Dap Hartmann (1992). Superb Bronstein eats Computers for Breakfast. ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2 » Aegon 1992
- David Bronstein (1993). Mimicking Human Oversight. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3 » CC Sapiens
- David Bronstein (1997). My Experiences with Computers. Advances in Computer Chess 8
External Links
- David Bronstein from Wikipedia
- The chess games of David Bronstein from chessgames.com
- David Bronstein’s anticomputer games by Rafael Vásquez
- Yasser Seirawan and Frederic Friedel on David Bronstein, TV ChessBase, YouTube Video
The mentioned game of David Bronstein vs. Walter Shawn Browne:
References
- ↑ David Bronstein, July 16, 1968, from Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANeFo), 1945-1989 Nummer toegang 2.24.01.05 Bestanddeelnummer 921-5139, Eric Koch, Anefo, David Bronstein from Wikipedia
- ↑ David Bronstein, Tom Fürstenberg (1995). The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Cadogan Books, London. ISBN 1-85744-151-6, pp. 188 (47) Bronstein,D - Rebel 90, pp. 278 (26) Bronstein,D - M20 Computer
- ↑ David Bronstein vs M20 (Computer) 1963 from chessgames.com
- ↑ Aegon 1992 from CSVN Computerschaak
- ↑ Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Cadogan Chess Books) from amazon.com
- ↑ Photo from Tom Furstenberg - David Bronstein and myself at the AEGON Human v. Computer tournament in Den Haag, 1991
- ↑ David Bronstein vs. XXXX, Photo by Thorsten Czub from Aegon 1996-97
- ↑ David Bronstein dies at 82 by Frederic Friedel from ChessBase News, December 07, 2006
- ↑ Zurich 1953 chess tournament
- ↑ Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Cadogan Chess Books) from amazon.com