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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Konstantin Kosteniuk’s ChessKA is 2012 World Chess Robot Champion!

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Hi everyone,

Konstantin Kosteniuk, the father of the 12th women’s world champion Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk, has done it again: his robot “ChessKA” (also called the Chess Terminator), has beaten the Robot KUKA Monster and has won the title of World Robot Chess Champion. Chess King is proud to have been a sponsor of this event! Read the complete post at Chess King website.

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World Chess Blitz Championship Among Chess Robots - First Videos

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Hi everyone,

We have here the first videos by Eugene Potemkin from the World Chess Blitz Championship among Chess Robots - ChessKA versus KUKA Monster. The event is being held in Moscow on the sidelines of the 2012 Anand Gelfand World Chess Championship. Further details are awaited. Photo: GM Alexander Grischuk will play ChessKA later in the day!

Just in case you've missed the preview report, here it is.

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World Chess Blitz Championship among Chess Robots - ChessKA versus KUKA Monster

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Hi everyone,

The previous time: Grischuk - ChessKA

This special chess news post is for all humans (and bots) about the World Chess Blitz Championship among Chess Robots that will take place on May 19 (12pm – 17pm Moscow time). This incredible World Chess Blitz event will be held on the Strastnoy Bulvar. Two robots will fight for the title of the World Robot Blitz Chess Champion.

The first is called ChessKA and is the creation of Konstantin Kosteniuk, honored chess coach of the Russian Federation, who is an active inventor and has dozens of registered patents. 


ChessKA is the first chess playing robot who has beaten top human players on a real chess board in blitz (5 minutes per game). This ChessKA is already well-known among chess amateurs for its chess games against Vladimir Kramnik, Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk, Sergey Karjakin and some other well-known grandmasters. Those battles between human and robotics chess players were quite hard for the humans, whose best ability was to make a draw!

KUKA Monster

The other robot, KUKA Monster, was constructed just a short time ago by engineers of one of the greatest industrial robots building corporation -- KUKA Robotics. 


They decided to challenge the Russian invention, because blitz chess is considered as an excellent test for intellect, accuracy and speed of their production. Some other producers of industrial robots have shown an interest in creating chess playing robots too, like FANUC (Japan) and ABB (Sweden).

The games will be played according to FIDE rules with time limit 5 minutes for each participant. A total of 10 chess games will be played and the winner will be proclaimed the First Absolute World Chess Blitz Champion. 

The organizers are planning to make such event annual and hope for interest of industrial robots corporations in creating of ChessRoboLeague like Formula One for car producers.

Also an exhibition blitz match will be played between KUKA MONSTER and Alexander Grischuk, former World Blitz Chess Champion and one of the best Russian and world chess players. 


The event is organized by: Russian Chess Federation, Center of physical culture and sports of the Central District of Moscow, “Tigran Petrosian” Chess Club, collaborating with the Foundation for Support of Chess Creativity, Dvorkovich Chess Lounge, Chess Queen, and Chess King chess software.

We will soon know who is the best and fastest chess playing robot in the world!

You might also like to read our other chess robot posts on Chess Blog:

Konstantin Kosteniuk’s Robot Chess Terminator plays GM Grischuk

Why chess robots have trouble 'grasping' the game!

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Also see her personal blog at
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