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A remarkable chess event has been held at the Dvorkovich Lounge, Moscow. A chess robot (developed by Women World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk's father and first chess coach Konstantin) has been playing blitz against GM Igor Beridchevski, WGM Alina Kashlinskaya and Arkady Dvorkovich (Russian President's Economical Advisor and Head of the Russian Chess Federation Supervisory Council) himself.
As you can see, the robot is quite skilled at moving the pieces, and also proficient in chess. The machine was set on medium mode, deprived of the opening book and databases and given just 5 minutes in total against three opponents. Arkady mentioned that still, given the handicap, it managed to obtain winning positions on all the boards (and lost only to him - on time). Soon we might witness a new type of Chess World Championship, the one where robots will be competing!
Comments (2)
1. Written by Seth on 21:18 09 2010 .
I am not enthusiastic about this. I liked to be able to cheat against the computer and beat it. Now I'll have to worry the machine will strangle me if I do it again.
2. Written by D on 03:17 10 2010 .
The project is nice because it is nice to play against a computer OTB, but it is irrelevant in terms of Artificial Inteligence. Currently, there are lots of strong chess applications (Rybka, Crafty, etc). I think this is more related to robotics rather than chess software.
