Man Versus Machine
It is the next chapter in the story of man versus machine.
Garry Kasparov, the number one chess player in the world, drew his six-game series against supercomputer Deep Junior. The match was covered online by X3D, a 3-D Internet imaging company (though I'm not certain what the 3-D effect would have added to the chess match).
"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. … I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." — Marcel Duchamp
Art aside, how does he feel playing on behalf of the entire human species (and superseding the Super Bowl while he's at it)? Or is he?
December 11th, 2009
[...] entire game could be played via notation at this point — which, in fact, is what happens with computer chess — maintaining any relation to Ono's white pieces remains strictly an exercise in [...]