Guest: David Levy

David Neil Lawrence Levy (b. March 14, 1945), in London, is a Scottish International Master chess player and businessman, noted 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 1972, at the Skopje Chess Olympiad, he played Board 1 for the Scottish team. David won the Scottish Chess Championship in 1968.

In 1968 he started a landmark wager with four Artificial Intelligence (AI) 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.

David is the author of Love & Sex With Robots