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Russian chess champion Vladimir Kramnik got a beating from chess computer Deep Fritz in their six-game encounter. Now, Vladimir’s biggest problem these days is how exactly can he sleep at night. Counting a thousand jumping Deep Fritzes over a fence, probably.

The 31-year-old Kramnik, who received $US500,000 ($634,800) for playing the mighty machine, could have walked away with double that sum if he had won. But the world champion had acknowledged even before the opening moves that Deep Fritz was “the clear favourite”.

In October 2002, Kramnik had held Deep Fritz to a draw after eight games, but the chess software has since been updated, becoming vastly more powerful.

via NEWS

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