There will be no chess board and no pieces when world No. 1 Garry Kasparov plays the latest so-called man vs machine contest next week, just a computer monitor and a chessboard image as seen through 3D glasses. Former world champion Kasparov, 40, pits his genius against “X3D Fritz,” a combination of Fritz, the most dominant chess software, with X3D Technologies company software that specializes in virtual reality.
Kasparov will wear 3D glasses while sitting in front of a monitor showing the board. Promoters said the glasses will have the effect of making the board’s image realistic, floating in front of him, but Kasparov will have to adjust to not being able to reach out, touch the pieces and move them. Kasparov will speak his moves through a voice-recognition program and a human operator will make sure the computer records them correctly.
Source: ZDNet
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