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...national high school chess champion in 1986 and 1987, last lost to Kasparov in New York two years ago. At that tournament, Kasparov played six junior chess champions, beating three, tying two and losing to one. Experts who evaluated those games labelled Rao's the most interesting, theoretically played game...
...course, there was no need for conservatism with at least one of Saturday's opponent's--IBM's Sargon IV chess program. "It was not a game," the chess champion describes the match. "It was a joke...
Last week in New York, Kasparov played another computer, known as Deep Thought and touted as the best computer chess player ever made...
...infallible as he has been called, Kasparov may have made a mistake in his estimate. "Kasparov is just a stronger player," says Feng Hsiung, who helped develop the machine. But he says that Deep Thought can already play chess better than the computer analysts who programmed it. The computer can review 700,000 moves per second...
...points out, "It is illegal for a human chess player to consult any reference during a game, but a computer's memory can refer to a chess dictionary, and immediately access every game played in the past...