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Subject: Machines attack, humans strike back

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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