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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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 ;)

  4. 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...

    --
    A guy walks into a bar... well, I forgot the joke, but the punchline is that he's an alcoholic.