The world's best chess computer beat the human world chess champion in a six-game competition last week. The last game lasted almost five hours. Deep Fritz, the computer, won two of the six games and four ended in draws. Vladimir Kramnik, the human world champion, is from Russia.
In October 2002, Kramnik held Deep Fritz to a draw after eight games, but the chess software has since been updated, becoming much more powerful.
Kramnitz made a mistake in the second game this year. It is very hard to win after a mistake because the computer can calculate millions of moves in a second. Putting on a brave face, the Russian said he felt he could still put up a good fight against Deep Fritz. He said he would like a rematch in two years.
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But computer experts say that the computers are developing very quickly. They think that soon the computers will be so good that it will be no fun to watch a game with a human. Maybe this will be the last time a man plays a chess computer in this kind of competition.
(staff writer , with agencies)
世界頂級的西洋棋電腦上週在一場六盤對陣的棋賽中打敗世界棋王。雙方最後一局對峙了將近五小時，而六局對戰紀錄中，電腦「深沉德國兵」兩盤獲勝，四盤逼和來自俄國的世界棋王柯拉姆尼克。
二○○二年十月，柯拉姆尼克與深沉德國兵對陣八局後打成平手，但西洋棋軟體自此不斷升級，功能強大許多。
柯拉姆尼克在今年的第二局走錯一步棋後，勝利之路寸步難行，因為電腦每秒可計算出幾百萬棋路。俄國棋王面色無懼地表示，自己仍然可以跟深沉德國兵對上漂亮的一局，並且表示希望兩年內再大戰一場。
但電腦專家表示，電腦發展非常快
速，他們認為電腦很快就會變得很厲害，要不了多久，觀看人類和電腦比賽就會變得索然無味，這也許是最後一次人類和西洋棋電腦對奕。（翻譯︰鄭湘儀）
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