 How would Sandra's journaling experience been if she had not met Doc?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1962. Silently, so as not to shock anyone with illusions about well dressed young women, Sandra Lea Grayling cursed the day she had persuaded the Chicago Space Mirror that there would be all sorts of human interest stories to be picked up at the first international grandmaster chess tournament in which an electronic computing machine was entered. Her last assignment had been to interview the pilot pair riding the first American manned circum-lunar satellite—and the five alternate pairs who hadn't made the flight. "I heard the Russians have been programmed—with hypnotic cramming and somno-briefing. Sandra's chief difficulty was that she knew absolutely nothing about the game of chess—a point that she had slid over in conferring with the powers at the Space Mirror , but that now had begun to weigh on her. "Confidentially, Doc, I was having trouble swallowing ... Doc's ability to interpret her mind was as comforting as the bubbly, mildly astringent mixture she was sipping. The Machine is probably programmed to recognize such situations and do something of the same sort, though we can't be sure from the information World Business Machines has released. Once again, you see, you have the human factor, in this case working for the Machine." Sandra tried to think of a being who always checked everything, but only within limits beyond which his thoughts never ventured, and who never made a mistake....
 She would have likely written a very vague article due to her lack of experience with chess.
 She would have struggled to identify all the competitors to name in her article if it was not for Doc.  She would have had more time to get a better understanding to write about the Machine if Doc had not taken up all her time talking.  She would have likely written a very vague article due to her lack of experience with chess.  She would have not struggled as much with writing since Doc gave her excess information.