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World Computer Chess Championships Underway

Games · Gamespuzzle · 2004-07-06 11:00 · posted by timothy · from the hushed-crowd dept. · 230 comments

azaris writes "While the FIDE World Championships for human players in Tripoli, Libya are down to the last two contestants, the computers are playing their own 12th World Computer Chess Championship in Ramat-Gan, Israel. How will the open source chess engine Crafty do against the proprietary closed engines? Will the computers play more interesting chess than their human counterparts?"