COMPUTER FIGHT
Baer Given Upset Win
f.V.Z. P.A. -Reuter—Copyright) MIAMI BEACH. Mai Baer, an American of Gennai.-ScottlBh extract, scored an upset “points victory” over Jack Johnson (United States) in a computerised tournament designed to discover the world’s best heavy-weight boxer. The computer, which processed four million calculations in each round of the 15-round fight, gave Baer nine rounds, Johnson only one, with five rounds even. The fight was the fifth in a series of 15 arranged by a radio programme producing company which asked more than 100 United States boxing experts to feed the computer with tens of thousands of pieces of information on each boxer.
The organiser of the computer tournament said later: “This would have gone down in ring annals as one of the major upsets of all time and many people certainly will
disagree with the computers’ verdict.”
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31498, 12 October 1967, Page 15
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