World Computer Chess Championships Underway

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?"

Comments

USA?

[magarity]

All five of the players listed as from USA have blatantly obvious Russian (and one Japanese) names. Looks like no native players in this one (again). Alas, purely intellectual pursuits are frowned upon in these here parts.

Re:Interesting computer Chess?

[pnot]

Except a human has this neat thing called intuition.

Your intuition can tell you things that will take you hours and hours to prove on paper.

Indeed. It seems intuitively obvious to me that the earth is flat and the sun moves round it, and I *still* haven't managed to prove it on paper.

tripoli

[minus_273]

hmm be careful not to give the material poweing thos super computers to the Lybians make no deals either or doc might get killed.