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Sunday, December 22, 2013
Are Killer Chess Robots Kind to Pretty Russian Girls?
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013
Hello everyone,
Yes, pretty girls play very strong chess, but once in a while you cannot help suspect that a killer chess 'gentleman' would allow a pretty girl to 'escape' with a draw? Maybe! Maybe, not!
Kuka Monster spent a recent winter evening in a night club in Moscow - playing chess with Pavel Eljanov and Alina Kashlinskaya. The guests watching closely included Russian national chess team coach Yuri Dokhoyan.
The special chess event was titled 'Mind Games' and included three hours of chess in the blitz format between Alina, Eljanov and Kashlinskaya. The highlight of the event was world chess robot champion Kuka Monster taking on Eljanov and Kashlinskaya in separate games.
Eljamov sacrificed a pawn and lost the chess endgame to Kuka Monster. Kashlinskaya managed to bravely hold Kuka Monster to a draw in a perpetual check after a series of sacrifices. Yes, Alina Kashlinskaya is a strong chess player from Russia, but we couldn't help speculating: Did Kuka Monster flirt with her? Replay the game and decide for yourself. (It was a 5:0 Blitz)
Funny Chess Videos Featuring Ivanchuk, Kramnik, Grischuk, Kuka Monster, Anand and Kasparov!
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012 Hi everyone, We found some funny chess videos for the weekend. These have been uploaded on YouTube. One of these videos - Kuka Monster versus GM Alexander Grischuk - has a detailed Chess-King.com post for you to read. Have a fun-full chess weekend.
Konstantin Kosteniuk’s ChessKA is 2012 World Chess Robot Champion!
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012 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.
World Chess Blitz Championship Among Chess Robots - First Videos
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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.
World Chess Blitz Championship among Chess Robots - ChessKA versus KUKA Monster
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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!
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