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A chess game between fictional astronaut Frank Poole and supercomputer HAL 9000 features prominently in the Stanley Kubrick-directed 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968 concomitant to the eponymous novel by Briton Arthur C. Clarke. The game, which follows the Worrall Attack (alternatively, English Attack) variation of the Ruy Lopez opening and which is ostensibly crafted by Kubrick, himself a chess player, is first shown at the fourteenth move, position pictured, when Poole, playing the white pieces and already in a position evaluated as inferior, blunders, capturing a poisoned pawn and permitting HAL to sacrifice a bishop to produce a position in which checkmate is forced in five moves. HAL, though, avers that he has mate in two, whereupon Poole resigns; the scene is understood to evidence either HAL's fallability or the computer's selfish duplicity, foreshadowing, in either case, the film's denouement.

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