David Levy (chess player)
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David Neil Lawrence Levy (b. March 14, 1945) is a Scottish International Master chess player and businessman, celebrated for his involvement with computer chess, the Computer Olympiads (founder), and the Mind Sports Olympiads (founder). He has written more than 40 books on chess and computers.
In 1968 he started a landmark wager with four Artificial Intelligence luminaries that no computer program would win a chess match against him within 10 years. In 1978 he won that bet by defeating the Northwestern University computer program Chess 4.7 in a six-game match. These events led to a prize of $5,000 offered by Omni magazine to the authors of the first chess program to defeat Levy. Levy was defeated in 1989 by Deep Thought.
In 1997 he led the team that won the Loebner Prize.
Since 1999 he has been the president of the International Computer Games Association.
He was Chairman of the Rules and Arbitration Committee for the Kasparov vs Deep Junior chess match in New York, 2003.
He is currently the CEO of Intelligent Toys Ltd, a London-based company that develops toys that incorporate AI.
[edit] External links
- FIDE rating card for David N L Levy
- David Levy at ChessGames.com
- The History of Computer Chess: An AI Perspective. Watch Full Lecture - WMV 183MB | Google Video featuring Murray Campbell (IBM Deep Blue Project), Edward Feigenbaum, David Levy, John McCarthy, and Monty Newborn. at Computer History Museum
- Statistics at ChessWorld.net
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