Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 18:07:01 04/21/01
Man-against-machine showdown Bahrain to host new chess tussle LONDON, April 20 — Bahrain will this October host the biggest man-against-machine chess showdown since Garry Kasparov lost to Deep Blue in 1997, sources familiar with the $2 million deal told Reuters Friday. The agreement is set to be signed next week between the Bahrain government and British chess promoter Brain Games Network Plc, which has new Russian chess ace Vladimir Kramnik under contract. Kramnik, 24, a former pupil of Kasparov who beat his old teacher in November last year, will face the best of a number of computers currently playing against each other in Spain. Last year Kramnik beat a machine called Deep Junior, one of a group of pretenders to the crown of International Business Machines Corp’s famous Deep Blue. Brain Games chess championships, launched last year with the Kasparov-Kramnik match in London, run rival to those of the established world chess body FIDE. The group is also negotiating for a deal with China’s state television network CCTV and the Chinese Chess Academy over TV rights to the world Xiangqi Challenge in Beijing. It hopes to secure corporate sponsorship for global dissemination of this Chinese version of the game.
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