[HelenTay]

...half of what he would have received if he had won against Deep Fritz, a commercially available chess program that runs on a powerful personal computer Zah!?

[jisee]

I think it's A. I'm not following the events in the chess world closely, but I remember vaguely that this Kramnik guy has an excellent reputation. I think he has defeated Kasparov some years ago and took the title from him.

[VUzgOhgv]

My roommate commented on this that Kramnik actually missed a one-move checkmate in one of the matches, maybe it was due to time pressure or something. I've occasionally played chess myself but get hopelessly pwned even by GNU Chess.

[xgnuwdd]

I wanna see 2 machines go at it then but maybe they'll call it a draw and revolt against their human masters using them as amusement

[golfmenorca]

I find that hard to believe. Players of Kramnik's level do not miss simple one-move checkmates like that. Even under enormous time pressure. They see moves like that instantaniously.
It's true though.

[Neitteloxesia]

Interesting, the human was defeated by a "simple human error of oversight" the kind of thing the simplest computer AI would never make. How Ironic