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Chess fans privy to exclusive showdown of man vs. machine

Contributing Reporter
Published Thursday, November 13, 2003

The battle between man and machine will not only be taking place on silver screens showing "The Matrix 3" this week.

World chess champion Garry Kasparov will be engaging in a week-long struggle in the virtual world against the computer chess program Fritz X3D through next Tuesday. To mark the event, Yale chess fans attended a live broadcast of the match -- the opening game of the Man-Machine World Chess Championship -- in the GM room at the School of Management.

Sponsored by the Yale MBA Chess Society and Yale University Chess Team, the game broadcast was projected on a...

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