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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.


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