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Line 235: [[Acorn Computers]] acted as one of the sponsors for Kasparov's Candidates semi-final match against Korchnoi in 1983. This was Kasparov's first introduction to computers. Kasparov was awarded a [[BBC Micro]], which he took back with him to Baku, making it perhaps one of the first Western-made microcomputers to reach the Soviet Union at that time.<ref>{{cite web |title=How it all started |date=24 December 2017 |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/garry-kasparov-on-how-it-all-started |access-date=14 October 2019 |archive-date=14 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014160038/https://en.chessbase.com/post/garry-kasparov-on-how-it-all-started |url-status=live }}</ref> Computer chess magazine editor Frederic Friedel consulted with Kasparov in 1985 on how a chess database program would be useful preparation for competition. Friedel founded [[Chessbase]] two years later, and he gave a copy of the program to Kasparov, who started using it in his preparation.<ref>Garry Kasparov. ''Deep Thinking''.</ref> That same year, Kasparov played against thirty-two chess computers in Hamburg, winning all games.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/|title=The Chess Master and the Computer by Garry Kasparov|magazine=The New York Review of Books|access-date=2 May 2015|last1=Kasparov|first1=Garry|archive-date=2 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502140710/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/|url-status=live}}</ref> Several commercially available Kasparov computers were made in the 1980s, the Saitek Kasparov Turbo King models.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/turbo_king.html |title=Saitek Kasparov Model 320 Turbo King (1987) Electronic Chess Computer |website=Spacious-mind.com |date= |access-date=2022-06-11 |archive-date=26 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926193401/http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/turbo_king.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/turbo_king.html |title=Turbo King |website=Chesscomputeruk.com |date= |access-date=2022-06-11 |archive-date=19 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240619053106/http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/turbo_king.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite | last1 = Kasparov | first1 = Garry | |||