Version: 2008
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Computerized checkmate

Chrilly Donninger (right), designer of the computer chess program Hydra, chats with U.K. chess grand master Michael Adams at a May 2005 press conference in London. In June, Adams will play a six-match chess tournament against Hydra for a $150,000 prize.

Credit: John D. McHugh/AFP/Getty Images

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