Poole – HAL 9000
February 18th, 2009
I think Martin Belam is right: Poole – HAL 9000 is surely the geekiest page in all of Wikipedia.1
Poole – HAL 9000 is a fictional chess game in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the movie, the astronaut Frank Poole is seen playing chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer [...] The director Stanley Kubrick was a passionate chess player, so unlike many chess scenes shown in other films, the position and analysis actually makes sense. [Discussion of starting position and on-screen moves follows...]
[Via currybetdotnet]
- Not that there's anything wrong with that. ↩
