Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 11:54:23 04/23/04
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On April 23, 2004 at 13:25:11, Helmut Conrady wrote: >On April 23, 2004 at 13:03:03, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>BEIJING, April 23 (Xinhuanet) -- China's women's world chess champion Zhu Chen >>will take on a Chinese-made super laptop in early June for a two-game contest. >> >> The human vs machine contest is the first of its kind in China and a female >>version of the famous showdown between Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov >>against IBM computers. >> >> Zhu Chen will play against the Unisplendour Star laptop developed by >>Tsinghua Unisplendour on June 8th and 12th in Beijing. >> >> The laptop, claimed to be one of the world's most powerful chess-playing >>notebook computers, will be released in May. And the contest will surely give it >>enormous publicity. >> >> Kasparov lost to IBM's Deep Blue in 1997 then tied with Deep Junior and the >>virtual reality supercomputer X3D Fritz in February and November last year. >> >> (RIENGLISH.com) > >Didn´t know so far a laptop is able to play chess itself. :) > >Helmut When did Zhu Chen became a ghost? :-) Jorge
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