Staff at the Institute for Higher Chess Studies often played chess with each other for academic interest. But one day it came down to a challenge to a chess duel. Anton Antal, a junior laboratory assistant in the queen trap department, bet with Gregor Garad, a technician in the hopeless rook endgame department, for a single-seat ornithopter. Anton entered into the argument rashly - he would probably lose if he did not turn to Shakhimat, the robot grandmaster.©Ny