My nephew developed and runs the #1 Chess Bot in the world managed by a single individual. A few Teams beat him. But no other single person.
He’s got a Chinese girlfriend now, they’re cute as heck, and one hopes on the road to forever together.
:^)
I remember how there was a prize for the first chess program that could beat chess masters. IBM had its Deep Blue system, which was very very good, but wasn’t undefeated.
There’s also this historical tidbit, the 18th c Mechanical Turk chessplaying fake automaton:
https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/wolfgang-von-kempelen/