Word: kasparov
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...Kiev, have cowritten a book on fitness, speak several languages and are ace chess players. And they may be having some influence on their colleagues. Lewis has become a chess devotee, although he hasn't yet matched the Klitschkos' prowess on the board. Vitaly held his own against Garry Kasparov in an exhibition match last year and played current world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik to a draw earlier this year. Vitaly is the stronger chess player, but he concedes that his little brother is "the better boxer. Wladimir is the future in boxing," he predicts. For the moment, at least...
...match - Kramnik dominated the first half and Deep Fritz rallied in the second half - ended up a tie, four games to four, and therefore did not resolve the burning question of whether man or machine plays better chess. Kramnik wants a rematch, but before he gets another shot, Garry Kasparov, his former teacher and arch rival, will take on one of Deep Fritz's cousins, the Israeli program Deep Junior, in a match in Jerusalem in December...
...evened the score at three points apiece. There are two games left and $1-million is at stake - not to mention the restoration of human dignity. Vladimir Kramnik's fellow grand masters hope that he will win the competition and avenge the loss of the previous world champion, Garry Kasparov, to an IBM supercomputer five years ago. "If he wins, we'll have something to be proud of again," said Alexander Baburin, editor of the Internet chess daily www.chesstoday.net...
...queen a pawn, the world champion resigned. "I am not so depressed," Kramnik said afterward. "The result is not positive, but the game was a pleasure. I enjoyed the game. It was so beautiful." Other grand masters were dejected; they fear that the world champion has gone mad, as Kasparov did when facing Deep Blue in 1997. Perhaps the most nervous player of all is the anonymous British grand master who wagered 5,000 Euros on Kramnik on the gambling Web site www.betsson.com...
...Winners EVEL KNIEVEL Elderly daredevil to defy death again. Instead of jumping buses, he'll strap rockets to his walker and try to jump the buffet line at Sizzler GARY KASPAROV Chess master beats 15-year-old, wins Moscow Grand Prix. Great, but was it necessary to spike the king and do the Icky Shuffle on the board? BRUCE ARENA U.S. coach's team beats Portugal. 280 million Americans are still trying to figure out why they don't just pick up the ball and run with it Losers NICHOLAS TSE Hunky Canto-pop star charged with perverting justice...