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Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine is a 2003 documentary film by Vikram Jayanti about the match between Garry Kasparov, the highest-rated chess player in history (at the time), the World Champion for 15 years (1985–2000) and an anti-communist politician, and Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer created by IBM.
Kasparov's defeat marked the end of a time when the best humans could beat the engines. Money continued to flow into chess computing and the industry flourished, not without controversy however. In 2011, the four time reigning champion engine Rybka, was disqualified from the World Computer Chess Championship for code plagiarism. [11]
The first edition of The Royal Game. Following the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, the country's monarchists (i.e. supporters of Otto von Habsburg as the rightful Emperor-Archduke and the rule of the House of Habsburg), conservatives as well as supporters of Engelbert Dollfuss' Austrofascist regime, were severely persecuted by the Nazis, as they were seen as opponents of ...
The two tie for the US Chess Championship held at Long Beach. The US Women's Chess Championship, held in Illinois is shared by Elena Donaldson and Irina Levitina. Judit Polgár and Evgeny Bareev share victory at the 1992/93 Hastings International Chess Congress. Gata Kamsky wins the U.S. National Open in Las Vegas.
Chess 2: The Sequel is a chess variant created by David Sirlin and Zachary Burns of Ludeme Games. Sirlin, whose previous design work includes rebalancing Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, approached what he believed to be a problem of rote endgames and static opening games in chess by introducing asymmetrical piece compositions and an additional win condition. [1]
Game 6 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 1997 rematch of Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov. Deep Blue had been further strengthened from the previous year's match with Kasparov and was unofficially nicknamed "Deeper Blue".
Chess world champion Centowic wants to travel by ship to an important chess tournament. However, the ship's departure is delayed by the belated arrival of a mysterious and obviously anxious passenger accompanied by Bishop Ambrosse. During the trip, passengers ask grumpy Centowic to play a chess game, which he reluctantly agrees to.
[3] [4] Zilber, Latvian Chess Champion in 1958, defeated the teenage Mikhail Tal in 1952, [5] and during most of the 1980s was homeless and regarded as one of the top players in Washington Square Park. Waitzkin's main chess foil character in the film, Jonathan Poe (played by Michael Nirenberg), is based on chess prodigy Jeff Sarwer. When Sarwer ...