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Science 30 August 1996:
Vol. 273. no. 5279, pp. 1166 - 0
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5279.1166
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News & Comment

Charles Seife

On 26 August, chess champion Anatoli Karpov used the World Wide Web to take on everybody in the world--and drubbed all comers. Karpov's opponents on the Web played one game collectively, with a computer in Finland tallying their votes to choose each move. Karpov isn't the only champion playing techno-chess; Garry Kasparov, his longtime rival, is gearing up for a rematch with IBM's Deep Blue, the world's most capable chess computer, which he defeated early this year. Computers/Math




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