In the current world champion of chess, I think Vladimir Kramnik, was defeated in December by a chess-playingprogram.
当前的国际象棋世界冠军,弗拉基米尔·克拉姆·尼克,就在今年12月被一个国际象棋程序击败。
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In the early 1990s, as a demonstration of the power of parallel algorithms, members of Leiserson's group designed a chess-playingprogram that finished second in the 1995 computer chess championship.
They were interested in the nascent discipline of Artificial Intelligence, and they wanted to program a computer to learn a non-trivial skill like playingchess.