Sponsored by the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in cooperation with the UMBC Chess Club . Support for the Man vs. Machine Match was provided in part by The Intel Corporation. Support for the 12th Maryland Theory Day was provided by the National Security Agency under a grant from the Mathematical Sciences Program. A large demonstration chess board will show the game in progress. A live camera image of the match will be available through the world wide web, and moves of the chess game can be viewed over the Internet Chess Club .
Spectators are free and welcome.
This competition represents an ongoing struggle for machines to surpass humans in the intellectual challenge of chess. As shown in games from the 1994 Harvard Cup, the best machines now play at the grandmaster level. He learned how to play chess at the age of three by watching his father and brother play. Immediately, he fell in love with the game. At age ten, Sagalchik was invited to Botvinnik's Chess School, where he began his serious study of the game.