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First Kramnik vs DeepFritz, In Progress

Posted by timothy on from the cook-up-some-hotdogs-and-popcorn dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Reigning world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik played the first match in a series of eight against the world's strongest chess computer. 'After the game Vladimir Kramnik said that he was never worried about losing the typical Berlin endgame that arose in his first game against Deep Fritz. The World Champion is the master of this line and Fritz was unable to take advantage of the white pieces.' There is live coverage of the event at the main website." We've mentioned this match a few times before.

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  1. Berlin endgame? by Johnso · · Score: 2, Funny
    He's good at the Berlin endgame, huh?

    Too bad the Russians couldn't say the same in World War 2...

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  2. Live coverage..... by jimson · · Score: 5, Funny

    An in related news, live play-by-play coverage of paint drying!

  3. Newsflash! Deep Fritz 'seriously damaged'. by wackybrit · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just mirrored a news story from the BBC that states Deep Fritz has been destroyed in a possible terrorist attack on the conference. For some reason the BBC removed the story minutes after it was published.

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  4. I wrote the world's greatest chess program by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 3, Funny

    You may not be aware of this, because They tried to cover it up, but I once wrote the world's most powerful chess program.

    My approach was simple: to compute every possible move in every possible game, and come up with the perfect sequence. It took 14 years to do, on a 700-CPU supercluster, but finally we 'solved' chess. The database was huge. The program was unbeatable.

    Unfortunately it was also rather boring. The human would make the first move and, invariably, the computer would spend 4 hours sorting through the database and finally declared:

    Checkmate in 14705 moves. I win.

    RMN
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  5. Now... by ymgve · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...imagine a Beowulf cluster of DeepFri...

    AUGH! Stop beating me!

    All your pawns are belong to...

    NO! Not the baseball bat!

    How long til somebody mods DeepFritz to run Lin...

    Ack! Ack! ugh...you win...

  6. to quote a great Canadian band by SomeGuyFromCA · · Score: 2, Funny

    Paraphrased, "Even a computer that plays chess doesn't have the brains to run from a fire."

    (see the lyrics to "Kasparov vs. Deep Blue" off Moxy Früvous' album Live Noise.)

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