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Linux Chess Supercomputer Overpowers Grandmaster

Posted by timothy on from the would-you-like-to-play-a-game dept.

Capt Bubudiu writes "Deep Blue vs. Kasparov is something most readers will remember but when Deep Blue was retired by IBM, a Dubai company took over with Hydra. In a $150,000 6-game challenge in Wembley UK, the games got off to a humiliation for mankind as Michael Adams, the UK Grandmaster, was mauled in games one and three, drawing game two. Adams is ranked seventh in the world and what ordinary mortals call a 'Super Grandmaster'."

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  1. 1. e4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    First move!

  2. I Have To Say It... by Doc+Squidly · · Score: 1, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new Chess Playing Computer Overloards.

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  3. I think... by mogalpha · · Score: 2, Funny

    No one cares and or has any mod points today :)

  4. Hooray? by jackcarter · · Score: 3, Funny

    If a computer could do it 8 years ago, then with Moore's law, this is 1/(2^5) as interesting as it was then. Did it quickly by hand.

  5. Face it... by TheStick · · Score: 2, Funny
    From now on, we are sure Humans are dumb.

    Thank goodness I'm a Vulcan!

  6. scared by mnemonic_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, the time to get scared is when a chess computer becomes sentient, creates an army of robots and enslaves the organic world. Our only hope then will be the chess grandmasters, academic athletes turned heroes of mankind.

  7. Beating a supercomputer is easy.. by Thomas+DM · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet I can beat every supercomputer on Earth.. If you just allow me to pull the plug ;)

  8. Seems like man is mauling machine ... by DrJimbo · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... as the web site crawls to a halt.

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  9. Yeah, but... by chriswaclawik · · Score: 5, Funny
    In my mind, there will always be only one true grandmaster.

    I'm still waiting for the day where a supercomputer can win a rap battle against a human...

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  10. Linux Chess Supercomputer Overpowers Grandmaster? by EvilMonkeySlayer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Phew, for a minute then I thought the machines had risen and were exterminating mankind.

    You see, for some people we don't just not RTFA, but we also don't RTF subject.

    Often i'll not even read the title and just imagine up my own interesting news for nerds.

    Like:

    Monkeys become sentient and megalomaniacal. Invades Sweden for no apparent reason.
    RIAA sues *insert file sharing company here* the *insert organisation name* is outraged, *insert frail child or elderly person* shocked.

  11. Yawn... by flood6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what. Chess is so one-diminsional. I wonder how good that machine would do at a real skill game, like Rock, Paper, Scissors.

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  12. obFuturama Quote by Greyfox · · Score: 2, Funny

    Conan O'Brien's Head: Yeah, well at least I have something you'll never have! A soul!
    Bender: Big deal!
    Conan O'Brien's Head: And freckles!
    Bender: (crying) Whaa...ha..ha...

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    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

  13. Re:"we" won? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anything called art sucks anyway, so no change there.