This is the Guardian.

Today, a chess tournament in Dubai

and a victory for humans against the machines.

On Wednesday, World Chess Champion Gary Casparov

tied deep blue the IBM supercomputer

that can examine 200 million positions per second.

You might not remember it, but a chess showdown

held over a year between 1996 and 1997 was a bad moment for humanity

and a win for machines.

I was only in grade school back then, but it was this event that was getting sort of global

media attention that just happened to be happening in my hometown.

One of the matches was played in Philadelphia,

where Guardian Sports writer Brian Arman Graham grew up.

You know, it was the first of these two six game matches

between the greatest player in the world, Gary Casparov

and the IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue.

Earlier in the week, Casparov admitted he made a catastrophic blunder in game two.

We almost barely even knew it was happening in your hometown,

but the fact that it was was very interesting to me

and caught my attention and really captured my imagination

in a way that chess hasn't really let go of.

I was, are we missing something on the chessboard now

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