I was a chess theoretician for about 15 years when I published my magnum opus in 1999. One section of the book was on the Evans Gambit and I've written a stand-alone book on the Evans as well. Sometime around 1988, I was studying the Evans with the aid of a weak off-the-shelf computer called Par Excellence. It plays nothing good at all at blitz speed i.e. 1-5 seconds/move. While studying the Evans, I ran out of ideas so I asked the computer to make a move. It responded with a very good move. Next, I played a few more moves and then asked the computer to make another move. It responded with a very good move. Now, I was intrigued so I forced the computer to play both sides at blitz speed. Instead of playing junk, which I expected, it played beyond World Championship level chess. World class chess has a certain look to it. The subtle handling of pawn tension or piece tension, the way pressure is built and defused, the tactical accuracy and the long-term strategies employed that suddenly make sense five moves after they are played---all these allow one to distinguish between two Masters versus two World Champions, and, bear in mind, this was all done at blitz speed.

One of the first accomplishments that White achieved was to achieve sufficient pressure to force Black to give up the minor exchange (it won the Bishop for the Knight). Then White played the position like a semi-open position i.e. one that favors the Bishop even though it wasn't a semi-open position. White got so much pressure that out of nowhere, Black sacrificed a pawn. I said to myself, "Aha, you stupid computer, at last I made you blunder." Amazingly enough, White did not accept the pawn! This struck me as offsetting blunders, so I had White continue for 6-8 moves. Nothing happened. The pawn was still there. Then, I went back to the start where the sacrifice should have been accepted, and I required the computer with White to win the pawn. I waited for the axe to fall, meaning Black would regain the pawn with advantage. Instead, 6 moves went by, then 8 and then 10 and Black had not regained the pawn, but the Black Knights which had been kept in check the entire game were now very active. Since Black had started out the sequence with an extra pawn (this was a gambit opening), it just gave back the pawn and stood better. I was amazed.

Next, I went back to the start of the sequence and allowed White to do what it wanted to do so it maneuvered against the pawn for 15 moves, won it, and did not allow counterplay. Deep Junior, the strongest computer in existence, can only see three moves ahead in one second. My little computer was seeing 15 moves ahead at blitz speed or over a trillion times the level of computation of Deep Junior.

After a series of exchanges, White emerged with Rook, Bishop, and connected center pawns. Black had Rook, Knight and passed Rook pawns. White stepped into the Queening square of the King Rook pawn with its King, blockaded the Queen Rook pawn with its Bishop and rammed the center pawns home. When White was about to Queen one of its pawns, Black sacrificed a Rook to stop it. What is remarkable about this ending is that White had to have known that the Knight couldn't get to the passed pawns. If it could have, it would have been a draw. Somehow, when entering the endgame, White had to have known that that the Knight couldn't get to the pawns.

Richard, author of, 'Universal Chess The Search For Truth and Beauty', is of the opinion, "that intuition travels beyond the speed of light and permits us to communicate with the future. That is what I believe precognition is (my father had it once or twice)", he says.