Man leads machine in chess duel
By Will Knight
The world's best human chess player Vladimir Kramnik has taken the lead over the planet's best computer player in a million-dollar battle between man and machine.

Kramnik beat Deep Fritz in the second of eight matches after the computer program made a peculiar early mistake. The computer program returned one of its bishops to its original square in just the twelfth move, playing for a draw. Kramnik took advantage to control the board from then on.

But in the press conference that followed the match, Kramnik admitted that some of Deep Fritz's moves had presented significant new challenges. Of the computer's 27th move, Kramnik said: "Only a computer would find and play something like that. I was completely shocked."

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