One-Million-Rouble Chess Match: Sergey Karjakin vs Chess Robot ChessKa

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Hi everyone, 

Human versus Chess Robot: This is as big as it gets! One of the strongest chess players in the world Sergey Karjakin will take on chess robot ChessKa for a prize-money of one million rubles.

The Blitz Chess Championships 2013 for Chess Playing Robots and a unique match between Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin and 
chess robot ChessKa (aka Chess Terminator) will be held during 'Metalworking 2013' at the Exhibition Center in Moscow from May 27-27. Karjakin stands to win one million roubles if he beats the 'machine'.

Considering Mr ChessKa would not be getting tired so, in addition, kids from ages 6 to 10 in three age categories will also play with the robot. The providers of the event invite all young chess enthusiasts to compete with the robot and receive prizes. To apply for competition entry: chessrobot@yandex.ru.

Date	Event
May 27th, 2013 12.00 - 16.00	Children against robots Blitz-tournament with robot for children from 6 to 10 years old. Ceremonial awarding.
May 28th, 2013 12.00 - 16.00	Children against robots Blitz-tournament with robot for children from 6 to 10 years old. Ceremonial awarding.
May 29th, 2013 12.00 - 16.00	Children against robots Blitz-tournament with robot for children from 6 to 10 years old. Ceremonial awarding.
May 30th, 2013 12.00	World Chess Blitz Championship of Chess Playing Robots 2013
May 31st, 2013 11.00 - 15.00	Millennium Chess Challenge The match between the International Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin and the robot. The commentator of the match is Grandmaster Sergey Shipov. Prize Fund is 1 million rubles.

General sponsor – the Group of companies DAMATE, www.acdamate.com with the support of the nonprofit organization Fund for support of the chess art www.chessdvor.ru.

Also Read:

• Robot Blitz Chess! CHESSka vs. KUKA Monstr – Game One
• World Chess Blitz Championship among Chess Robots - ChessKA versus KUKA Monster
• Konstantin Kosteniuk’s Robot Chess Terminator plays GM Grischuk
• Konstantin Kosteniuk’s ChessKA is 2012 World Chess Robot Champion!

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Why chess robots have trouble 'grasping' the game!

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Hello everyone,

The New Scientist recently had an interesting article about how robots are still less efficient at 'grasping' than humans. That makes them still steps behind humans. If you read our news about the Chess Terminator developed by Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk's father Konstantin Kosteniuk, you would like to read this article too. Here it is. Enjoy.

Chess robots have trouble grasping the game

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Deep Blue's victory over Gary Kasparov in 1997 may have shown how computers can outsmart people, but if the game is taken into the physical world, humans still win hands down.

That's because, for all their software smarts, robots remain clumsy at manipulating real-world objects. A robotic chess competition held in August, for example, showed that even robotic arms used for precise work on industrial manufacturing lines have trouble when asked to negotiate a noisy, chaotic real-world environment.

The contest, held at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence annual conference in San Francisco, California, had a number of automatons competing to see who could best move pieces quickly, accurately and legally in accordance with the rules of chess.

Some teams used vision systems to identify where pieces were, but none attempted to distinguish between a rook and a knight, for example. Instead they relied upon remembering where pieces were last placed to identify them and move them accordingly.

The bots quickly ran into snags - their vision systems often misread moves, which led to confusion as to what piece had moved, and where the other pieces were on the board.

One approach, by robotics company Road Narrows, used a commercially available fixed robotic arm normally used for light industrial applications without any vision at all. The winner was a team led by Mike Ferguson at the University of Albany, in New York, which had a mobile robot with an arm attached. Despite the many variables introduced when moving a robot around, the droid's vision system managed to keep track of the board and pieces as it moved about, says Mike Stilman, one of the event's organisers, of Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta.

But even Ferguson's bot is a long way from earning the title "grand master" - all the teams' chess tactics came from a standard open source program that wouldn't have given Deep Blue a run for its money. But the creation of a software champion chess program wasn't just about winning, Stilman says - it was about gaining an insight into how the human mind works in order to build smarter machines. By bringing the challenge into the real world, the hope is to do the same for the physical problems of robotics, he says.

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Konstantin Kosteniuk’s Robot Chess Terminator plays GM Grischuk

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Hello everyone,

Remember Chess Terminator? He has beaten Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk now. Head over to www.chessqueen.com to watch the video and other games of Chess Terminator! Of course, we talk of the same Chess Terminator developed by Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk's dad Konstantin Kosteniuk!




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