Author: Daniel Jackson
Date: 13:21:35 10/08/04
08.10.2004 The man vs machine team chess championship in Bilbao started with a depressing 0.5-2.5 loss for the biological systems. But in round two humans struck back – in fact at one point they were very close to a 3:0 whitewash. The president of the sanctioning body ICGA, David Levy, gives us a provocative assessment of the event. Man vs Machine World Team Championship in Bilbao, October 6 – 9, 2004 This encounter between chess playing entities, biological and electronic, is taking place in the city of Bilbao in the Basque region of Spain. It pits three strong grandmasters against three top programs. The humans are Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, Elo 2757, world number five); Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine, 2710, No. 13); and Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine, 2576, who at 12 was the youngest GM in the history of the game). Full Story at ChessBase.. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1947
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