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Chess champion loses to computer Deep Fritz, the world's leading chess computer, has beaten human counterpart world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik in a six-game battle in Bonn, Germany. Kramnik said he would like a rematch in a year or two [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wo...

The infamous Sixth game of the Deep Blue - Kasparov rematch, played in New York City on May 11, 1997 and starting at 3:00 p.m. EDT, was the last chess game in the rematch of 1997 of Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov. (Deep Blue was further strengthened from the previous year's match with Kasparov and was un...

Pieces from the world's most famous chess set are going on display in museums in Aberdeen, Stornoway and Lerwick from next year, it was announced yesterday. The British Museum, National Museums Scotland and Scottish Government have teamed up to give people the opportunity to see 30 of the Lewis Che...

HellChess (Amiga) has been updated to v1.2 This version can play six different games, and unlike the windows version you don't have to register the program before you can play all of them. (Amiga gift) The games HellChess can play are: Chess, Checkers, Othello, ...

Earth vs. Space Match 2011 Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on Monday morning, May 16, at 8:56 AM EDT. The launch of Endeavour marks the second-to-last launch of the Space Shuttle program - and the start of the second Earth vs. Space Chess Match, sponsored by NASA in conjunction with the U.S. Chess F...

Houdini 3 - the world's strongest chess engine in the Fritz interface In 2009 Robert Houdart, a Belgian structural engineer working on nuclear power plants and astronomy, wiled away his time waiting for a telescope mirror by writing a chess program. To everyone's surprise it turned out to be the str...

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Chess Deep Fritz (Preview)	Computers	2	2849	Oct 11 20:38 2008 by Blobrana
Chess champion loses to computer Deep Fritz, the world's leading chess computer, has beaten human counterpart world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik in a six-game battle in Bonn, Germany. Kramnik said he would like a rematch in a year or two [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wo...
Chess IBM Deep Blue (Preview)	Computers	4	2870	Feb 9 17:00 2014 by Blobrana
The infamous Sixth game of the Deep Blue - Kasparov rematch, played in New York City on May 11, 1997 and starting at 3:00 p.m. EDT, was the last chess game in the rematch of 1997 of Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov. (Deep Blue was further strengthened from the previous year's match with Kasparov and was un...
Archaeology Chess Lewis Chessmen (Preview)	Off Topic	3	3876	Apr 15 00:07 2011 by Blobrana
Pieces from the world's most famous chess set are going on display in museums in Aberdeen, Stornoway and Lerwick from next year, it was announced yesterday. The British Museum, National Museums Scotland and Scottish Government have teamed up to give people the opportunity to see 30 of the Lewis Che...
Games Chess HellChess (Preview)	Computers	0	1592	Sep 25 22:48 2005 by Blobrana
HellChess (Amiga) has been updated to v1.2 This version can play six different games, and unlike the windows version you don't have to register the program before you can play all of them. (Amiga gift) The games HellChess can play are: Chess, Checkers, Othello, ...
Chess Earth vs. Space Chess Match (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1355	May 18 21:14 2011 by Blobrana
Earth vs. Space Match 2011 Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on Monday morning, May 16, at 8:56 AM EDT. The launch of Endeavour marks the second-to-last launch of the Space Shuttle program - and the start of the second Earth vs. Space Chess Match, sponsored by NASA in conjunction with the U.S. Chess F...
Chess Chess (Preview)	Software	0	1566	Oct 29 22:00 2012 by Blobrana
Houdini 3 - the world's strongest chess engine in the Fritz interface In 2009 Robert Houdart, a Belgian structural engineer working on nuclear power plants and astronomy, wiled away his time waiting for a telescope mirror by writing a chess program. To everyone's surprise it turned out to be the str...