2 stories on human vs machine on chess.
Story #1
Checking on 1 of my e-mail boxes, I found the latest newsletter from TWIC on GM Ehlvest vs Rybka Engine with the computer playing white in all 8 games on a 4 processor machine, giving odds of 1 pawn on a different position on a 8 games match. The time control is 45 minutes + 10 seconds for each move. Sadly, the final score is 5.5-2.5 in favour of the computer...
More information is available at GM Ehlvest's blog.
Story #2
One of the headlines on ChessBase.com shows "Man vs Machine, Zap!Chess vs Erwin L'Ami 1:1". Yes another match and this time, the games were played with time odds: the computer got 30 minutes (and no thinking on the opponent's time), vs 4½ hours for the human.
Zap!Chess is the commercial version of Zappa, the 2005 World Computer Chess Champion.
The complete story on the ChessBase.com website.
Ever since the Reign World Chess Champion GM Vladimir Kramnik was beaten by Fritz10, the Computer has been dominating human on chess. Nowadays, they are event unbeaten with odds given to our human GM... Will the scenario from movie, The Terminator actually happen to us one day? It seems like...
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