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Thread ID: 29655 2003-01-28 09:48:00 OT-Chess,Your move! Kiwitas (514) Press F1
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116890 2003-01-28 09:48:00 What ever happened to timed moves?

DEEP JUNIOR was beaten by humanoid Garry Kasparov in the first of six chess games yesterday against the cyberplayer .
Reports said that Kasparov won the game after a queen-queen swap, and early in the game he caused "Deep Junior" to pause for 25 minutes while it contemplated the significance of one of the humanoid's moves .

Either that, or it was having a severe identity crisis .

Kasparov was thrashed in 1997 by IBM computer Deep Blue, and claimed at the time that human beings were whispering suggestions into its data registers .

If he beats Deep Junior in the six match tourney, Kasparov will collect a cool $300,000 from the World Chess Federation in addition to the half million bucks he gets for just moving the bits of wood about the 64 square board .

Cheers,Kiwitas,;-)
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