ICC News Item #89

NEWS 89 (19-Apr-95)
Saturday April 22 3pm. GRANDMASTER LEV PSAKHIS! 2-time USSR Champ!

MAN versus MACHINE!!!!!!
GM Psakhis (FIDE 2625) will play a 2-game match against Genius 3.0 running
on a Pentium!  There will be lots of commentary and spectators!

GM Lev Psakhis has had a distinguished chess career.  Here are some of his
achievements:

- Two time gold medal winner as member of the Soviet students
     team in the students Olympiad.
- 1980 Joint USSR Champion (with GM Alexander Beliavsky)
- 1981 Joint USSR Champion (With GM Gary Kasparov)
- Winner of the European Team championships as part of the Soviet team.
- 1994 2nd in Israel Championships and Israel's blitz champion
- Winner of numerous international chess tournaments
- Trainer of the Polgar sisters.

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