Is the epic man-versus-machine chess contest taking place in Bahrain evidence that humans will one day be merely pawns in a world ruled by computers, asks James Woudhuysen
In Bahrain, Vladimir Kramnik, the world's top chess player, is feeling the heat. He's up against Deep Fritz, a lash-up of eight Pentiums that checks three million positions per second. Kramnik is 6...
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