World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik drew first blood by defeating the computer program Deep Fritz in game two of the "Brains in Bahrain" tie on Sunday.
After the draw in Game 1, Kramnik leads the eight-game match 1.5 to 0.5.
Kramnik's 13th move was a novelty, which forced Fritz to start calculating on its own rather than rely on the opening book prepared ahead by several anonymous grandmasters.
On move 12, the computer had inexplicably "undeveloped" its bishop by retreating it to its original position.
However, on move 27, Fritz came up with a shot that Kramnik called amazing.
"No human being would see such strange tactics. For a minute I couldn't understand the point, then I saw it."
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On move 57, Mathias Feist, Fritz's operator, faced with an exchange of rooks and a hopeless pawn ending, resigned for the program.
The match is being billed as a rematch of the 1997 match in which, Deep Blue defeated then world champion Gary Kasparov.
Kramnik will get $1-million (about R10-million) if he wins. - Sapa-AP
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