Computers run rings around top players<\/p>\n
Musthofid, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Young chess players GM Susanto Megaranto and FM Taufik Halay
\nmanaged to hold their computer opponents to draws in the third
\nround of the man vs machine matchup here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
For fellow team members GM Utut Adianto and FM Tirta Chandra
\nPurnama, it was another day of defeat.<\/p>\n
The computers prevailed 7-1 on the second day of the contest.
\nStill, it was a slightly better performance by their human
\nadversaries, who had lost 7.5-0.5 on Monday.<\/p>\n
In the third round of matches, halted for a 15-minute delay
\ndue to a power outage, Susanto, 17, forced a draw against
\nShredder in 43 moves.<\/p>\n
Taufik, 17, drew with Junior8 in only 29 moves.<\/p>\n
Susanto had looked under pressure when his queen's side was
\ndangerously exposed, but then the stoppage occurred. Once power
\nwas restored, Susanto, who gained his GM title at the Chess
\nOlympiad last year, launched a counter attack at the king's side
\nwhich forced the draw.<\/p>\n
But in the fourth round played later, the four players, who
\nare being groomed for the 2006 Asian Games, were demolished. Utut
\nlost to Shredder, Susanto to Chessmaster9000, Tirta to Junior8
\nand Taufik to Fritz8.<\/p>\n
Kristianus Liem, a chess columnist and official of the
\nIndonesian Chess Association (Percasi), said the allotted
\nthinking time of 60 minutes was too short for human players to
\nchallenge the computers.<\/p>\n
\"It was a rapid game and that benefited the computers, because
\ncomputers can calculate thousands of probable moves in a second.\"<\/p>\n
Kristianus added that the players would have to study the game
\ntype of each computer to perform better.<\/p>\n
\"As for Utut, he might have been distracted by his nonplaying
\nmatters,\" Kristianus said of the interim chairman of Percasi.<\/p>",
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