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“ In the early days of computer chess, people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer ( or program ) was world champion.

But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away ”.

He then suggests that this was “ just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter ’ s Law .”