Ukrainian sensationally beats world’s smartest chess programme
English.news.cn 2011-04-28 19:27:45
KIEV, April 27 (Xinhua) — Ukrainian Andrew Slyusarchuk sensationally won the match against the smartest and the strongest chess computer program in the world “Rybka-4”, the local media reported Thursday.
He spent 8 months to understand the principles of the program. Slyusarchuk had read about three thousand books about chess.
Skeptics have not believed that Andrew Slyusarchuk will be able to cope with the program. Nobody could do it before.
The first batch Slyusarchuk played blindfold with the white chess. He has not seen a chessboard, but just have memorize moves. For the second leg he used black chess. In general, the player has spent about 2 hours for a duel with the computer.
Seven years ago Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov had a fight with the computer. The man lost the game. After his defeat chess players have not gambled with the machines.
Andrew Slyusarchuk does not apply for the title of grandmaster. He just wanted to show the audience that the potential of the human’s brain is not fully used.
Slyusarchuk is an amateur in chess playing — he is a neurosurgeon. 39-year-old MD specializes in the brain studying as well as improving memory technologies development. He knows by heart 20,000 books and 30 million digits of the pi number.
Editor: Zhang Xiang
But could he beat Houdini (who beat Rybka in their last match)? =P
I’m very interested to know more about this person.
Memorizing losing lines by a computer is no big deal. Everyone has done it..and even Rybka will produce em. It just takes time to find them. Winning when the computer always plays the same way in given lines is not a feat of a great player…but its a nice feat of memorization…Nothing more to it than that. Get the comp to play offbeat lines that this person never looked at and he’d never have a chance.
Sorry humanity…but its true.
He knows 30,000,000 digits of pi? B.S. There is no way that is true. Just saying 30 million digits, at the rate of one a second, 24/7/365, would take you just under a year. (24 x 60 x 60 x 365 = 31,536,000). The world record is “only” 100,000 digits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology
Frederick,
this is a case of “man from other world”. I mean, we can’t know all the math, or even possibly math after years. Maybe fake, maybe not.
For example:
Let’s find n-root of a number. There are algorithms that will take minute or more. But, enter number^(1/n) in Excel and get answer right in a cell (so simple). Maybe computers are faster, or maybe precomputed, or I was sick that day at school. And imagine it all on paper long time ago.
I think, we can’t even know, maybe there is a formula for n-th digit of pi , or algorithm discovered later by using processing or science.
So, don’t be too sure, ups may happen, wiki is written by people.
Best regards.
This is fake. The russians invented this bull.
Seven years ago Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov had a fight with the computer. The man lost the game. After his defeat chess players have not gambled with the machines.
When making up stories, at least get those facts right that everyone can check…
20000 books is 2000 million words, said one per second takes over 60 years.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!
Don’t forget this Amature was the chess champion for his country 100 years in a row.
Just a way to get attention, apparently. The fake is explained
here:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7190
He doesn’t even know how the knight moves! 😉
@Frederick Rhine: yeah ur right reciting it nonstop would take about 3 months. But he demonstrate it by answering the questions of the audience the number in the given place, e.g. whats the 28,956th number? But about winning against Rybka, I really doubt it. Because when he was asked to play against SuperGM Ivanchuk he refused and said that any human player to him is childsplay to him. Mark of Cowardness….