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Kasparov to play virtual-reality chess match
New York, Nov 08: The world`s top-ranked chess player is facing a high-tech challenge: playing a game invented more than a millennium ago, against a computer, with voice-activated moves posted on a virtual board.
New York, Nov 08: The world's top-ranked chess player is facing a high-tech challenge: playing a game invented more than a millennium ago, against a computer, with
voice-activated moves posted on a virtual board.
"A machine has an advantage. It doesn't even know if it's winning or losing," Garry Kasparov said yesterday. "A human being is influenced by many things - by personal emotions, by
the weather. In a few years, it will be virtually impossible for a human being to match a computer."
The chess player from Moscow is ready to compete against a computer programme called the X3d Fritz. The four-game match is scheduled for November 11, 13, 16 and 18 in New York. The games can be followed on the web site of the sponsor, Manhattan-based X3d Technologies Corp. In the "man vs machine" match, the chessboard will be suspended in the air on a screen in front of Kasparov, who will have to wear 3d glasses, voice-activate the chess pieces and use a joystick to rotate the virtual board.
At 40, Kasparov is considered a mature champion by chess standards. But he says playing a computer helps keep his chess brain in shape. "To play a machine takes much more energy and resilience - it requires a perfection that is not required playing a human being," he said during a news conference.
"In three or four hours, my mind could be rebelling against this situation."
John Fernandez, X3d's chess consultant, described chess as "a mental sport".
Bureau Report
The chess player from Moscow is ready to compete against a computer programme called the X3d Fritz. The four-game match is scheduled for November 11, 13, 16 and 18 in New York. The games can be followed on the web site of the sponsor, Manhattan-based X3d Technologies Corp. In the "man vs machine" match, the chessboard will be suspended in the air on a screen in front of Kasparov, who will have to wear 3d glasses, voice-activate the chess pieces and use a joystick to rotate the virtual board.
At 40, Kasparov is considered a mature champion by chess standards. But he says playing a computer helps keep his chess brain in shape. "To play a machine takes much more energy and resilience - it requires a perfection that is not required playing a human being," he said during a news conference.
"In three or four hours, my mind could be rebelling against this situation."
John Fernandez, X3d's chess consultant, described chess as "a mental sport".
Bureau Report