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  • Kasparov 1, chess computer 0 (Human wins first game in rematch)

    01/27/2003 12:52:37 AM PST · by Recovering_Democrat · 22 replies · 285+ views
    NEW YORK, Jan. 26 — World chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated computerized challenger Deep Junior on Sunday in the first of six games pitting human wit against computer logic.KASPAROV FORCED the Israeli-programmed Deep Junior into a position from which it could not win, compelling the human moving its pieces to resign four hours into the game. Both players’ queens, the most powerful pieces on the board, were captured by the end of the game, leaving them to use less powerful knights, bishops and rooks. That gave the advantage to Kasparov, who used white pieces and moved first. “Once he was...