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Timothy Briggs is a flaky college dropout battling the world's smartest computer chess program, ANNDY. The confused young man identifies with sensational media figures under the skepticism of his overprotective mother, girlfriends and acidulous older brother. Will the bombardment of private and public life, real and fictive events overload Timothy during his impossible quest to defeat ANNDY on the world's stage? Leithauser sets his sophisticated story (written in 1989) in the form of a novel written in the year 2025, looking back at the tournament of 1995.