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Article: Kasparov vs. World ending on sour note: Did chess hackers waylay match?(A)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 21, 1999
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The world may have been created in six days, but it started falling apart around Move 51.
The much-ballyhooed "Kasparov vs. the World" chess match - pitting world champion Garry Kasparov against millions of players around the globe voting over the Internet - is limping to a conclusion amid charges that ballot stuffing, delayed move transmissions and computer hacking cost the World team the game.
Angry contestants, furious at what they saw as the unwillingness of sponsor Microsoft to address the problem, actually organized a cyber-mutiny this week by voting en masse for a move that would have given Mr. Kasparov the black queen - the most powerful ...
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