World chess champion loses to computer
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World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik lost his final game in a match against computer program Deep Fritz on Tuesday, ceding a hard-fought Man vs. Machine series 4-2.
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US-born chess legend Bobby Fischer, whose tortured genius prompted both awe and outrage, has died at the age of 64 at his home in Iceland, a close friend said Friday.
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Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany, def. Nicolas Massu (18), Chile, 6-0, 2-0 retired.
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Andy Roddick lost to Igor Andreev and James Blake was beaten by Ivo Karlovic, meaning both seeded Americans disappeared in the same day.
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Russian opposition figure and former chess star Garry Kasparov abandons plans to run for the presidency.
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David Bronstein, a chess grandmaster who nearly became world champion, has died at age 82, the World Chess Federation announced.
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World number one Roger Federer of Switzerland crashed out of the Olympic tennis tournament yesterday when he lost to unseeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic.
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Russian Mikhail Youzhny upset sixth  seed Paradorn Srichaphan 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to reach the  final of the China Open.
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The historic chess match between American Bobby Fischer and Soviet champion Boris Spassky was the Cold War played out with pawns instead of missiles, a combat of mind games between two masters at the height of their powers.
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Chess is very hard. As the game proceeds through its early and middle stages, the number of possible moves greatly increases.
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Inquest records open verdict over death of UK chess prodigy.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer wins a court order delaying his deportation from Japan.
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Russian computers controlling the International Space Station's position and supply of oxygen and water fail.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has appealed after a Tokyo court rejected his bid to halt deportation procedures from Japan, a fate he is also trying to escape
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World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik lost the sixth and decisive game against computer program Deep Fritz on Tuesday, ceding a hard-fought Man vs. Machine match 4-2.
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Bobby Fischer, who became America's first and only world chess champion after defeating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War, has died at the age of 64.
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Computers can beat some of the world's  top chess players, but the most powerful machines have failed  at the popular Asian board game "Go" in which human intuition  has so far proven key.