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PC Chess Program beats GrandMaster

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 29, 1998 @04:16AM from the its-getting-spookier dept.

jb goode writes "This is a story about KryoTech's thermally accelerated 450MHz Cool K6-2 PC, running the chess program ``Rebel'' from Schroder BV in the Netherlands, defeated world #2 ranked grandmaster Viswanathan (``Vishy'') Anand by a score of 5 to 3. The match consisted of four blitz games, two semi-blitz games, and two tournament games played July 21-23 on the island of Ischia, Italy. Update I don't have a working link to this story apparently. Anyone got one?"

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