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U.S. Blocks Shipment of Ken Thompson's Chess-Playing Computer to Soviet Union (1982)
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Arthur Besse lemmy.ml cypherpunks@lemmy.ml
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Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/06/07/us-blocks-shipment-of-chess-playing-computer-to-soviet-union/42d5a437-c5fc-4b60-b9b0-b9d17a5f81f5/

In the last 17 minutes of this video from 2019 you can hear Ken Thompson talk about chess computers and this incident in particular.
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