IT IS a titanic struggle between man and machine. One has been described as playing with audacious speed, obliterating its opponent. The other has defended staunchly, without emotion. Which, let’s face it, isn’t hard if you are a computer program.
This week, battle is being done on a chessboard, with world number one Garry Kasparov, considered to be one of the greatest ever exponents of the game, playing X3D Fritz, considered to be – well, a powerful piece of software. But while Fritz can analyse 3 million moves per second, and look up to 19 moves ahead, Kasparov is making…
