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Mr. T. A. Marsland
Computing Science Department
University of Alberta
Edmonton T6G 2H1 Canada
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Dear Tony:

	I'm happy to accept your invitation to talk at the World Computer
Chess Championship in Edmonton.  It will give me an opportunity to raise
a number of ideas in connection with my planned title ``Making chess the
Drosophila of AI''.  It would include historical, scientific and
exhortatory material.

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Sincerely,
John McCarthy
Professor
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