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World Computer Chess Championships Underway

Posted by timothy on from the hushed-crowd dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:USA? by Ratfactor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just out of curiosity, what would you consider to be a genuine USAian last name? Washington, Jefferson, or Franklin?