The longstanding chess rivalry between computers and humans just got physical
I can’t let you make that move, Dave. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer There is perhaps no game which computers have more experience playing against human opponents than chess. The first rudimentary programs capable of playing a whole chess match were developed in the late 1950s; four decades later, in 1997, IBM’s famous Deep Blue supercomputer finally got good enough at the game to defeat World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov — a long-sought benchmark victory for artificial intelligence .
“The robot broke the child’s finger. This is of course bad,” Moscow Chess Federation president Sergey Lazarev told Russia’s TASS state news outlet. He said the kid, who is one of Moscow’s top 30 players under age nine, got his finger put in a plaster cast and was able to resume the tournament the following day.
As the Guardian darkly noted on Sunday, the kid was lucky he escaped more serious injury, as there have been multiple accidental deaths around the world involving industrial robots:
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