Author: Derek Paquette
Date: 13:33:54 04/23/04
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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) It doesn't mention Shredder8, have you heard otherwise?
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