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Computers Win at Man vs Machine Championship

Posted by Zonk on from the i-for-one-welcome-our-chess-playing-overlords dept.

Fanfan writes "Chessbase is reporting that the man vs. machine championship ended badly for the humans : The event ended in a depressing 3.5:8.5 loss by the humans to the computers. Both Fritz and Hydra scored a remarkable 3.5 points out of four games, while an out-of-form Junior ended up with 1.5 points after the only computer loss in this tournament (to 14-year-old Sergey Karjakin)."

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  1. Depressing? Hardly. by ZeeCog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wouldn't call this depressing at all. After all, humans can still manage the task of playing chess, speaking any different number of languages, walking (controlling thousands upon thoudands of muscular fibers simultaneously), observing and comprehending the world around us, _designing_ those computers that beat us, and the myriad of other miracles that we perform on an hourly basis. I'd say, if anything, we should be patting these puny little computers on the head, condescendingly congratulating them on their miniscule achievment.

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    -Zeecog

  2. Anyone else amazed? by Warpedcow · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is anyone else amazed that the winner, Fritz 8, was running on a mere 1.7GHZ laptop???

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    moo