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Subject: usnews.com ==> Chips vs the Chess Masters [by Nell Boyce]

Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes

Date: 07:03:14 10/01/02


      http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/021007/misc/7chess.htm
Five years after a historic defeat, humans may be poised for a comeback

When IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat chess champion Garry
Kasparov five years ago, the case seemed closed: The wetware of the
human brain was simply no longer a match for the hardware of a
chess-playing machine. So what, exactly, is the point of Man vs.
Machine, Round II–two upcoming contests that pit today's best chess
programs against Kasparov and the current world champion, Vladimir Kramnik?



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