This story reminds me of an episode of the American TV show "Cheers", where the bar tender (Sam) was playing against an experienced player. However, since he wan't good at chess, he was cheating by having a computer play his moves, and having someone in another room give him directions over an earpiece. Inevitably, the computer crashed (or the earpiece failed, can't remember which), so he made a random move. This threw off his opponent, who over-analysed the situation, and ended up losing.

Now I'm wondering, which happened first -- that TV show episode, or the Kasparov game?