Chess, anyone?

I like play­ing chess just fine, but I haven’t been at all inter­ested in the computer-​human matches of recent years. Some­how the idea of a com­puter beat­ing a human being at chess seemed less than shock­ing to me…

But, one inter­est­ing devel­op­ment is this report that in the recent Deep Fritz / Kram­nik match, Deep Fritz was pro­grammed to heckle Kram­nik with rel­e­vant Shake­spearean quotes. The funny thing is it’s really funny to read what the com­puter said.