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Humans can no longer beat a computer. They play to perfect now. The latest software is rated about 3400-3500. Kaspirov was about 2840 at one point. Never say never, but computers and software only get better. My laptop could easily destroy deep blue.
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Humans can no longer beat a computer. They play to perfect now. The latest software is rated about 3400-3500. Kaspirov was about 2840 at one point. Never say never, but computers and software only get better. My laptop could easily destroy deep blue.
Which software is rated that high?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_engine.
Houdini is rated about 3330. It's free too (just the engine.)
Chessmaster software by Ubisoft as you probably know has PC and Mac versions.
According to the September 2009 Swedish Chess Computer Association (SSDF) rating list, Chessmaster 9000 has an estimated Elo rating of 2718 on an Athlon-1200 PC.[4] If multiple versions of other engines are stripped out of their list, Chessmaster 9000 ranks 14th among all engines tested.
Link is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessmaster
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_(chess)
Fritz is a German chess program developed by Frans Morsch and Mathias Feist and published by ChessBase. There is also a version called Deep Fritz that is designed for multiprocessing.
The latest versions of the consumer products are Deep Fritz 12 and Fritz 12. They came with stellar recommendations by International Master Josh Waitzkin, who said that "Fritz is like a woman that you can't get with. It just drives you to think in ways you've never thought before."
History
Morsch and his friend Ed Schröder produced a chess program in the early 1980s. In the early '90s, the German company ChessBase asked Morsch to write the Fritz chess programs (called Knightstalker in the USA). In 1995, Fritz 3 won the World Computer Chess Championship in Hong Kong, surprisingly beating a prototype version of Deep Blue.
In 2002, Deep Fritz drew the Brains in Bahrain match against the classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik 4–4.
In November 2003, X3D Fritz, a version of Deep Fritz with a 3D interface, drew a four-game match against Garry Kasparov.
Main article: X3D Fritz
On June 23, 2005, in the ABC Times Square studios, the AI Accoona Toolbar, driven by a Fritz 9 prototype, drew against the then FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov.
From 25 November-5 December 2006 Deep Fritz played a six game match against Kramnik in Bonn. Fritz was able to win 4–2.[2][3][4] In this match, Kramnik blundered away game 2, allowing a mate in one.[5]
On the September 2010 SSDF rating list, Deep Fritz 12 placed sixth with a rating of 3110, 135 points higher than Deep Junior 10.1, and 103 points lower than #1 ranked Deep Rybka 3 x64. Deep Fritz 11 is eighth on the same list, with a rating of 3073.
On the December 2010 edition of the CCRL rating list, Deep Fritz 12 placed sixth with an Elo rating of 3088, 29 points higher than Deep Junior 11.1a x64, and 174 points lower than #1 ranked Deep Rybka 4 x64. Deep Fritz 11 is also sixth on the same list, with a rating of 3097.
As you can see it Fritz can beat any GM easily.
Houdini, Stockfish, and Rybka are probably the three strongest chess engines available. Houdini and Stockfish are free. (And you can find Rybka for free, if you know where to look.) All are much stronger than Deep Blue. (We've come a long way in 14 years.)
To answer the original question, the Hydra - Adams match made a few headlines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_%28chess%29
And the 1968 David Levy computer chess bet is pretty well-known:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Levy_%28chess_player%29
Apr 21, 2011
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The rate at which better technology arrives FAR out-paces that of human development...
I hope there is another human vs computer match will come together.
I am aware of the Kasparov v. Deep Blue matches. Are there any other famous man v. computer matches out there? And are there any planned?