There was a period of time in which, although there were decent, chess-playing programs couldn't beat the best chess-playing humans.

尽管曾一度出现过,强劲的象棋程序,无法战胜顶级人类棋手的情形

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And it's worth pointing out that-- a point that I didn't make last time-- it's worth pointing out that, what the computers, at least the best chess-playing computers don't do.

需要指出的,上次课我并没有提到这一点,需要指出的是,电脑,至少最棒的国际象棋电脑,并没有做什么

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