Man vs Machine

We are all aware that the best that a human could hope for in a match against a machine is a draw.

However, considering a machine's ability to succeed is based on its brute force calculation, in a 1 min match  could any of the world's top players defeat the most recent fritz, rybka releases?

Yes and No,the basis of all programs are grafted by man anyway,and i do believe fritz had beaten a computer setup too.

Well, you are not going to be able to flag a computer :(

and also, while it is true that computers heavily rely of brute force (with some huerisitcs and prunning here and there) this does not make them weak at 1 0 chess, If they are running on the right hardware. (e.g Supercomputer deepblue used to be able to calculate 1 million positions a secound. If we doubled the computing power we might be able to get say 1.75 mill positions a secound and so on).

so in short: Rybka on my odd 500mz, 500 ram computer would probably get trashed by a GM at 1 0 time controls. The same Rykba on a quad core PC with 8 gig memory, etc would pose a much greater threat.

I won against the computer (and no you couldn't change its settings to make it easier) once without cheating