Computers Win at Man vs Machine Championship

Fanfan writes "Chessbase is reporting that the man vs. machine championship ended badly for the humans : The event ended in a depressing 3.5:8.5 loss by the humans to the computers. Both Fritz and Hydra scored a remarkable 3.5 points out of four games, while an out-of-form Junior ended up with 1.5 points after the only computer loss in this tournament (to 14-year-old Sergey Karjakin)."

congrats

[heistgonewrong]

The only computer loss in this tournament, to a 14 year old kid... cheers to him!

One thing to remember

[XxtraLarGe]

These computers were all designed programmed by teams of people. The play of the computer is a credit to how much further we have advanced in electronics and computing. The shock should be when somebody actually manages to beat the computer!

Re:Depressing?

[Reapy]

Exactly, why is this depressing? I mean, human's built the computers. They created every part of the machine, designed the algorithms used to search for moves, populated the database it uses to think, and hell, invented the game of chess.

Getting upset at being beat by a chess computer is like getting depressed about a forklift being able to lift more then you.