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                        THE 64-SQUARE MADHOUSE

                            by FRITZ LEIBER

                    The machine was not perfect. It
                    could be tricked. It could make
                    mistakes. And--it could learn!

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
                Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1962.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Silently, so as not to shock anyone with illusions about well dressed
young women, Sandra Lea Grayling cursed the day she had persuaded the
_Chicago Space Mirror_ that there would be all sorts of human interest
stories to be picked up at the first international grandmaster chess
tournament in which an electronic computing machine was entered.

Not that there weren't enough humans around, 