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World News - Lausanne, Switzerland

11 Jun 1997, Steve Masters, Computing

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/1857633/world-news-lausanne-switzerland

There will be everything to play for at the World Chess Championship in Lausanne next January - as long as you're human, that is. World Chess Federation president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov confirmed there will be no place for Deep Blue, the supercomputer vanquisher of current champ Garry Kasparov.

'It will be a chess conference among humans,' Ilyumzhinov said. Does that mean it's a tournament of second-raters?

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