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Top News: Chess Computer Beats Kasparov
NEW YORK (AP) -- In a dazzling, hour-long game Sunday, the Deep Blue IBM
computer demolished an overwhelmed Garry Kasparov and won the six-game chess
match between man and machine. The final score was 3 1/2 points for the
computer and 2 1/2 points for Kasparov. The 34-year-old Russian and the
computer split the first two games, then played to draws in Games 3, 4 and 5.
Kasparov resigned after the computer's 19th move in Game 6. Kasparov was
visibly upset at the game's end and bolted from the table, shrugging his
shoulders. At a news conference later, he lashed out at IBM for programming
the computer specifically to beat him. "It was nothing to do about science.
.... It was one zeal to beat Garry Kasparov," he said. "And when a big
corporation with unlimited resources would like to do so, there are many ways
to achieve the result. And the result was achieved." "I feel confident that
the machine hasn't proved anything yet," Kasparov added. "It's not yet ready,
in my opinion, to win a big contest." Grandmaster Ilya Gurevich said Game 6
was "a stunner. Kasparov got wiped off the board." A friend of Kasparov's,
Michael Khodarkovski, said this was the first time Kasparov has ever lost a
chess match. A 1984-85 championship match between Kasparov and then-champion
Anatoly Karpov was suspended without a winner being declared. To access the
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